On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:19:09 -0800, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* David (dg@stanwater.fsnet.co.uk) [011205 12:07]:
That seems to get it to work, but does not allow any outside communication.
That's a firewall.
That's being pedantic - surely you know what I mean.
Why are you trying to use the SuSEfirewall2 and not the personal firewall?
That was the consensus of the advice here. As I understand it, it uses iptables instead of ipchains, the former being more secure
Are there any basic settings I can use?
See /usr/share/doc/packages/SuSEfirewall/EXAMPLES
Yes sure there are. You are an expert and understand the intricacies. It shows for a standalone machine, or more complex networks. I have a Win box networked to a Lin box. It does not show that. If I knew what to change it would be ok, but I don't. In any case taking the first example which is FW_DEV_EXT="pppo" causes the firewall fail to load, so the examples cannot be trusted. Regards, David