You might want to check out www.freesco.org I "made a router by screwing an old motherbord and a floppy in a set of rails to a piece of plywood. It fits under the corner end table in my small apartment. Tim... On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 21:14, Mike Burger wrote: > My apologies. > > Yes...a box running iptables could be used as a border/front end firewall. > > I'm using such a setup, now, on my DSL connection, to restrict access to > the various machines on my home network. > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Rick Lim wrote: > > > The boxes vary from unix servers to voip gateways etc, so IPTABLES is not an > > option on each machine, what is required is a machine to funnel all acess > > into and out of the subnet these machines are on. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > > On Behalf Of Mike Burger > > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:58 PM > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > > Subject: Re: IP access restriction > > > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Rick Lim wrote: > > > > > I have a friend that has a few boxes directly on the internet, which he > > > thinks are being access by unwanted "visitors". > > > > > > These machine still have to have routable IP address but should have > > limited > > > access from external IP subnets. > > > > > > > > > > > > What would be suitable for limiting IP subnet access to these address? > > > > > > Would a 'firewall' like machine with IPTABLES be able to accomplish this, > > > that is without changing the IP address passed through the 'firewallish' > > > machine? > > > > iptables, on the system in question, should be sufficient. > > > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org > > To be notified of updates to the web site, visit > http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a > message to: > > site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with a message of: > > subscribe
