FireWall and Virus

[David Fletcher]

On Friday 04 Jan 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Donn wrote:
> 
> > 5. There is a built-in 'firewall' call iptables. No-one with an IQ lower
> > than Stephen Hawkins' can use it. Relax, you are in good company in total
> > hopelessness when it comes to using it :)
> 
> LOL.  I've been using Linux since before iptables (and even before its
> precursor - ipchains) but I agree completely.  I barely understood ipchains
> and never really got a handle on iptables.
> 

I don't understand it properly either, but if you just want to protect a 
desktop machine or server from intrusion I reckon it's not too hard to set up 
some rules if you use webmin. It has an option to do the basic set up for 
you, then you can add your own rules to accept packets for things like CUPS, 
apcupsd or https, restricting it to the local network or specific source 
addresses if you like.

Dave



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