* Moonshi Mohsenruddin <moonshi@linux.com.sg> writes:
Is someone working on HOWTOs to setup a secure SuSE 6.x Linux firewall?
The "6.x" is the problem. SuSE 6.0 uses Kernel 2.0.36 and therefore "ipfwadm". SuSE 6.1 uses Kernel 2.2.5 und therefore "ipchains" for firewalling. You should read all the relevant information, e.g., "/usr/doc/packages/firewall/Firewall-Mini-Howto.txt" "/usr/doc/packages/ipchains/HOWTO.txt" There are also man and info pages, e.g., "man ipfwadm", "info ipchains" There is also a German "Firewall Handbuch fuer Linux 2.0 und 2.2" online available (e.g., as a .pdf file) under GPL. <http://www.little-idiot.de/firewall/> BTW: The paragraph describing the SuSE firewall doesn't sound too good. Actually it sounds pretty bad. Hi SuSE people, did you hear that?
If there are documentations for this, can someone pls post the urls/links of the idiot-proof documentations?
It's German: <http://www.little-idiot.de/firewall/firewall2pdf.zip>
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Mark Lutz wrote:
BTW: The paragraph describing the SuSE firewall doesn't sound too good. Actually it sounds pretty bad. Hi SuSE people, did you hear that?
Yes, we do... but hey, it isn't SuSE specific. It's just a screened network architecture, AFAICR, and it's well know, that these arch. isn't very secure... but it's enough security for small- and middle-sized companies. The security of the firewall described at the CERT workshop doesn't depend on the tools or kernel SUSE comes with, it depends on the arch., and the arch depends on the security needs of the company and the firewall "expert". Bye, Thomas -- Thomas Biege, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg E@mail: thomas@suse.de Function: Security Support & Auditing "lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~thomas/thomas.pgp | pgp -fka" Key fingerprint = E3 42 DA D1 3B 9C 23 D0 93 1F B8 2E 6B 9A 45 82
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Mark Lutz wrote:
BTW: The paragraph describing the SuSE firewall doesn't sound too good. Actually it sounds pretty bad. Hi SuSE people, did you hear that?
Yes, we do... but hey, it isn't SuSE specific. It's just a screened network architecture, AFAICR, and it's well know, that these arch. isn't very secure... but it's enough security for small- and middle-sized companies. The security of the firewall described at the CERT workshop doesn't depend on the tools or kernel SUSE comes with, it depends on the arch., and the arch depends on the security needs of the company and the firewall "expert". Bye, Thomas -- Thomas Biege, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg E@mail: thomas@suse.de Function: Security Support & Auditing "lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~thomas/thomas.pgp | pgp -fka" Key fingerprint = E3 42 DA D1 3B 9C 23 D0 93 1F B8 2E 6B 9A 45 82
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