[techtalk] Firewall...

[curious]

FIRST: Decide on an overal security policy for the company (who can do
what/ what is important/ what do we do when we want to make changes to our
paremiter {ie. add modems and stuff}) 

Second:what type of access do you want going in and going out of your
network? (ie. what is the firewall reason for living)
7/10 times you can build a firewall of proxies (ie. squid,FWTK)
then just use Ipchains to handle protecting/watching the rest of the box
http://www.opensec.net/fwproxy.html has links to lots of firewalls

this is a REALY good howto:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html

Without knowing what your wanting to do with the firewall it's hard for me
to come up with a more detailed answer... the links and clue words above
aught to get you started... if you have any other questions.. let me know
:)

Chris


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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, antonxie wrote:

> dear techtalker...
> I bought a book called Linux bible for RH6.1 just yesterday...haven't gone thru it yet..
> meeting today, boss wants me to hurriedly get a proper firewall setup on the system
> and wants me to know how to get along and deal with it from time to time...
> 
> I've just linuxed may be for the last one and a half months ,,not quite....
> things has been very difficult being ex p.o.w (prisoner of windows)
> 
> Please help me (desperate:( ) on  what to do...and where to go....
> Microsoft just asks everyday where I want to go.... I don't want to experience the 
> same thing with linux.....
> 
> Cheers to all
> 
> anton xie
>