I need some advice. Somone broke into our computers at work, dropping in trojans,virus,etc. He's also using www.dameware.com to control our NT4 RIPS. The time has come for me to learn (by saturday night) how to install a linux firewall. We have an intranet, in which one cable plugs in port 19 on our cisco router which gives us internet access. It's now unplugged, so no email, web or ftp. Going to take my old pentium200mhz-64MBram and plug into its ethernet card our LAN cable. Then I guess I need to buy another NIC, to run a cable back out to the router/hub's port 19. Guess my question is: Can the suse firewall be used like a bridge? To allow our FTP server, & our pc's to web access through it? I thought it may only be for an individual workstation. Like the XPHome firewall. Just looking for a little advice, as I have no clue what I'm doing. I know alot of this is covered on the net, so I'm really sorry to have not reaserched this better. I was planning on setting this up when I was "good & ready". Just this jerk has changed our plans. :( -Trey
Guess my question is: Can the suse firewall be used like a bridge? To allow our FTP server, & our pc's to web access through it? I thought it may only be for an individual workstation. Like the XPHome firewall. Just looking for a little advice, as I have no clue what I'm doing.
Yes.. or you can even use a normal box setup ipchains on it.. have a dual homed host.. has been working for use since donkeys years.. though we use a rather old version.. but works perfect here. We have now even done RAS on another system to access the net over our VPN.. Go ahead and do it.. perhaps depending upong the number of users you should have I would say min 128 mb to work fine.. though 64 would also not be a problem but the more the faster it gets..
I know alot of this is covered on the net, so I'm really sorry to have not reaserched this better. I was planning on setting this up when I was "good & ready". Just this jerk has changed our plans. :( -Trey
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