mobility and firewall

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:16:00PM -0500, Lance Lassetter wrote:

> It seems some  sort of *recommended* simple firewall solution should  be
> in place.  I.e: for laptop users who are very mobile and connecting to
> multiple networks that may be infected with some sort of worm/virus.
> 
> I have yet to find a solution when assigned multiple ip addresses and
> using multiple connection methods, like ppp0, eth0, ath0, wlan0.
> 
> Something like Red Hat's lokkit would be nice, however lokkit itself
> writes entries for the DNS servers.
> 
> So what I'm asking is a simple firewall solution that can be implemented
> before multiple interfaces come up.

Here's a link to some previous work on a specification for a firewall for
Ubuntu:

http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/Firewalls

Feel free to send your ideas to the folks who worked on it.

-- 
 - mdz