On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:15, Rick Stevens wrote: > jay wrote: > > anyone know anything about iptables??? I want know what could pose a > > potential security risk how and what to not allow.... > > Have you tried reading the iptables HOW-TO? Or use a decent firewall > builder such as FireStarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net) to > have a nice GUI to do it with. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > well that's a good point but does it interfere with any of the usual redhat/fedora tools.... Another point I should is that my particular box is behind a NAT so it isn't for me, but in a week i will be doing a system with just strictly linux acting as the firewall, I have never used iptables except for the default redhat/fedora setup.. thanx