Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[super-suser@xxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

Hi!

Now that I have a cable modem, security is a real concern for me.  I've read
all sorts of documentation on IPMasq et cetera, but I'm not sure how much of
it applies to me.  I only have one machine, with one NIC, with one regular
user (me :).

I understand that IPChains is the current method of protecting networks with
a machine based on kernel 2.2.  Can I run IPChains on my machine to protect
myself?  I don't run any services (http, ftp, telnet), so I'm not afraid of
losing *that* kind of functionality.  I do, OTOH, surf alot :).  What do you
think?


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-=|JP|=-                (Resident GNUbie)
Jon Pennington         | SuSE Linux 6.2
super-suser@xxxxxxxxxx | Kernel 2.2.10
Kansas City, Missouri  | AMD K6-III 450

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