This is getting to be a circus !
You CAN NOT run a firewall when ip-forwarding is disabled !
the basic thing about a firewall is that it forwards packets, althought
applaying some sort of restriction at the forwarding rules.
Read the howto again .. both of you.
At this (Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:54:34PM +0200) day, Izar Tarandach wrote:
| Mike Almogy wrote:
|
| > So if i want to crack a firewall all i need to do is to enable the
| > IP_FORWARDING ?
| >
|
| If you get to the stage where you can do that, there are much "better"
| ways to do it. Or at least smarter.
|
| > Another thing, If i have IP class 192.168.XXX.XXX no one can access to it
| > from outside, right ?
| > Isn't it secure by itself ? No one can access my workstations (or private
| > servers) unless he is on the same network with the same ip class, right ?
|
| In principle yes, RFC-obeying routers should not let these pass networks.
| But we have seen so many RFC-ignoring over the years...
|
| --izar
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| Izar Tarandach
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