Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3442 mails)

[David <dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:19:09 -0800, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
>* David (dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [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