On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:29:07 -0500 Rick Meyerhoff <rick at eworld3.net> wrote: > IPCop seems to be a Linux distro used to turn a PC into a firewall. > What I want is to just run a firewall on the one machine that I do > everything on. I don't think I really need to have a seperate firewall > but maybe I'm wrong. > Well, if it's just one machine that you have directly connected to a modem then I'd learn how to do ipchains/ipfilter/masquerading depending upon your kernel. Also look into Linux security on the www.tldp.org website's how-to. The nice thing about having a separate machine as someone pointed out, is that it's much harder to crack into two systems than it is just one. Also, if you have multiple systems on a home network and use dial-up as your gateway for all of them you can share the connection. albeit very slowly, and configured as dial on demand. I use IP Cop personally, and have tried smoothwall. Both are very similar, but prefer IP Cop. -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list