[techtalk] IPCHAINS

moebius at ip-solutions.net moebius at ip-solutions.net
Thu Mar 2 10:58:14 EST 2000


Hey Alex,
  If you have logs of the attempts to connect please post and I'll try to
help you.
Regards,

Harry Hoffman
Product Systems Specialist
Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
206.634.3082 x. 270

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, ALEX WRIGHT wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm also having problems with IPChains... What's this Mason of which you
> speak?
> I've been using pmfirewall (http://www.pointman.org) with some success, but
> I'm having trouble connecting to www.hushmail.com and www.smile.co.uk (both
> secure systems... might have something to do with it).
> I'd recommend turning logging on for denied packets for a while, it does
> help in debugging the IPChain rules!
> 
> Alex.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moebius at ip-solutions.net [mailto:moebius at ip-solutions.net]
> Sent: Thursday 02 March 2000 08:47
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] IPCHAINS
> 
> 
> Hey Sriram,
> Plenty of HowTo's on ipchains., Packet filtering can be done thru them. I
> would suggest checking out mason if you're new to the ideas of
> firewalling. Mason automates the ipchains creation by listening to the
> traffic going thru you network. That is how I learned. Took my network
> down for 3 days, did traffic one port at a time and watched to see what
> rules were written. It was a great learning experience, albeit boring.
> HTH,
> 
> Harry Hoffman
> Product Systems Specialist
> Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
> 206.634.3082 x. 270
> 
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Sriram-HO wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Is there any detailed step by step document on IPCHAINS?
> > 
> > I want to implement ipmasq and do some kind of packet filtering.
> > 
> > Also is there any tool for Linux something like websense?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Sriram
> > 
> > 
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