[luau] firewall question

[Deven Phillips]

Heads up,

	I am the former consultant and here's the skinny for Ruby.

Mandrake Linux 8.1
Uses the Mandrake DrakFirewall
Has an internal and external interface.

Hope that helps!!!

Sorry that I hae been so darned busy lately!!!

Deven Phillips, CISSP
Check me out @ http://www.that80snight.com


On Saturday 30 March 2002 12:25 pm, you wrote:
> > My problem - I need to modify our firewall, which I tried to do, but it
> > doesn't seem to allow our remote user to pass through our firewall.
>
> Well, let's get some information. When asking for help on a mailing
> list, it is best to provide basic information up front.
>
> Are you running a full distribution or a distribution on a floppy like
> the Linux Router Project?
>
> Some distributions have firewall tools, but these usually are not robust
> enough to meet the demands of a business.
>
> Which version and distribution of Linux are you running? To determine
> this try the command:
>
> cat /etc/issue
>
> Also enter the command:
>
> uname -a
>
> There are two types of firewall rules depending on the age of your
> installation.
> As root try the commands:
>
> which ipchains
>
> which iptables
>
> Two How-Tos:
> http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/howto/iptables-HOWTO.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html
>
> Does either of these commands return anything:
>
> ipchains -L
> iptables -L
>
> Hopefully one on these commands will list your firewall rules from
> memory. The firewall rules are usually established from a script and can
> be modified with single commands or the script can be modified and ran.
>
>
> Some basic questions that you need answers for before changing your
> firewall rules:
>
> Which port(s) need to be opened for the remote user? What is the service
> that the remote user is accessing? Does the service use TCP or UDP, or
> both?  Does the service use a specific port or a random high
> unprivileged port? Does the remote user have a static IP?
>
> Of course there is always MonMotha's IPTables Firewall found at:
>
>
> http://monmotha.mplug.org/firewall/index.php
>
>
> Steve A.
>
> > The only
> > thing I was able to get from our former linux consultant is that our
> > firewall is booted into memory and that he forgot what the file name was.
> >
> >
> > The file I tried to modify is rc.firewall.  So, if I am modifying the
> > wrong firewall file, how do I find out which file is the correct
> > firewall??
>
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