[plug] firewall rules

[John Breen]

At 09:51 AM 26/12/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 26 December 2001 08:03, John Breen wrote:
> > Right now, the default is that everything is
> > Accepted,  then stuff from my LAN is masqueraded.  That's a pretty big
> > security hole, isn't it?
>
>Depends what services you're running (netstat -tanp and netstat -uanp will
>tell you). I generally prefer French Foreign Legion rules (you shall do
>nothing except, literally ``vous ne ferez rien excepté...''). If you are a
>looney, you will find detailed English joining instructions and hints here:
>
>     http://home.talkcity.com/spiritcir/lediable/join.htm

I can join the french foreign legion?  cool!

> > Any suggestions, offers of help, etc...
>
>I generally use 2.4 kernels and monmotha these days.

I would, but aren't there some stability/security issues with 2.4?


>Cheers; Leon