first, the firewall has to have two ethernet interfaces. The servers should sit on one NIC, and the Cisco router on the other. Other than that, it's just a matterof writing an iptables script, install a firewall building utility, or go with something like IPCop (not FC based, but a good product). On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Franco wrote: > Hi, what i need is this: > i have a Cisco Router and 8 servers with 8 public ips, > now i need of a firewall and i want to setup a linux server > as firewall to filter all incoming traffic from router and > pass it to a servers if the firewall policy have passed. > > What i need to know is how can i setup the ethernet card > for use it as firewall-gateway for my public lan. > Best regards. > > > Samuel Díaz García ha scritto: > > Whats do you need? > > > > First, take an eye on to multiple HOW-TOs. > > > > In www.netfilter.org you can find many documentation about IPTABLES and > > the extensions. > > > > In www.lartc.org you can find many documentation about routing, > > bandwidth, etc... > > > > After that (three or four days to review docs and know what do you need > > and some tests with your FC) ask us again. don't you? > > > > Good luck. > > > > Franco escribió: > > > >> Hi, i have a PIV 2.7 Ghz with 768 MB with 2 NIC card, > >> can someone help me to configure it as firewall for my > >> public subnet? > >> Thanks. > >> > > > > -- 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