Hi Adalberto !
I'm planning to serve web pages from my personal box (family pictures and the like), running SuSE 9 stock with all patches. The machine will be handed all port 80 (or whatever port I decide to use) requests from my linksys router/ firewall, therefore being completely exposed on that port. I'll also be letting ssh through.
Just some more info: in my internal network I'm running NFS, so can't use the suse firewall (since it blocks that service). I'm also running rsync.
--> As others have pointed out already, you should definitely run SuSEfirewall2 on your SuSE 9.0 server. Have a look into /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 (I don't know the Yast-Interface for SuSEfirewall2 so I tell you what to put in the config file) and put FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="www ssh" FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_EXT_IP="" to allow port 80 (www) and SSH from external to your box and FW_TRUSTED_NETS="your.internal.net/netmask" to open your computer for the internal net. Of course you can restrict this to certain ports/portranges to restrict access from internal a bit. Don't forget to restart the firewall with rcSuSEfirewall2 restart HTH, Armin -- Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6 Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY Email: schoech@iap-kborn.de Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102 WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50