Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2425 mails)

[Charles Philip Chan" <cpchan@xxxxxxxx (Charles Philip Chan)]

    > How do I get my Linux box to secure the connection from the net
    > (i.e.  shutdown any intruders from the net while allowing both
    > Win98 boxs and the Linux box to access the net?)

The SuSE firewall package does all that, please make sure that it is
installed (under series sec). You will then have to setup the firewall
by editing the file

   /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config

It has extensive comments in it so you should not have any problems. I
suggest that you start the firewall at boot time if you have a
permanent connection. If not then you should put:

   rcfirewall restart

in your /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and

   rcfirewall stop

in your /etc/ppp/ip-down.local

This is assuming that you are using ppp.

Charles




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