[plug] firewalls on 486

[Simon Scott]

	Either run a portscan from an external machine, or use netstat
(?memory error?) to check which ports are open

	Make sure the only ports you have open are for services you want
external people to use, and keep the software up to date especially for
those services.




	From:	Mark Nold <markn at enspace.com> on 31-05-2001 01:34 PM
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	Subject:	RE: [plug] firewalls on 486


	I suppose the next question is "How do you test your Firewall?" i
know this is
	a bit of a moving target, and short of getting a cracker to have a
go at it...
	is there a decent checklist of things to confirm a decent
firewall/secure
	setup?







	Mark Nold
	markn at enspace.com
	Senior Consultant

	Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




	On Thursday, 31 May 2001 9:09, Simon Scott
[SMTP:simon.scott at flexiplan.com] 
	wrote:
	> 	welcome to the power of linux :)
	>
	> 	I love success stories, and happy campers :)
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	> 	From:	mickey <gards1 at iinet.net.au> on 30-05-2001 05:29 PM
	> 	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
	> 	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
	> 	cc:	
	>
	> 	Subject:	Re: [plug] firewalls on 486
	>
	> 	Gavin Corfield wrote:
	> 	I personally just installed SmoothWall on my old 486 (after
reading
	> of
	> 	its existence here on the PLUG mailing list), and I'd have
to say,
	> as a
	> 	firewall, its brilliant. The install was a breeze (download
a tiny
	> 23meg
	> 	.iso CD Image and burn it, (or mount it via loopback i
guess) ), and
	>
	> 	detected my big old 3Com Etherlink III no worries. The
distribution
	> 	includes easy to use masquerading, firewalling, most other
-ing
	> you'd
	> 	want really, and best of all can be accessed via web browser
(it
	> runs
	> 	its own httpd), because you dont really want to bother with
a
	> monitor
	> 	and the whole shazam. You can probably get smaller more
efficient
	> server
	> 	(there distributions that fit on one or two floppies for
example),
	> but
	> 	for my 486 (8megs of RAM, 210meg HDD) it seems perfect.
	>
	> 	A formidable task, bah! to that. :), any dummy can do it
(especially
	> if
	> 	I managed).
	>
	> 	http://www.smoothwall.net
	>
	> 	for the .iso image as well as easy to understand
documentation (PDF
	> format).
	>
	> 	Good luck, (but you wont need it).
	>
	> 	Mikey.
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	> 	> Hi all,
	> 	>
	> 	> Thanks for views on email clients.  I'm looking at setting
up a
	> firewall
	> 	> on a 486 box.  Being a 486 I'm told I dont have pci slots
but can
	> get
	> 	> older NIC's.
	> 	>
	> 	> I appreciate that I have given no details but I want to
have an
	> idea of
	> 	> how formidable a task setting this system up is likely to
be.
	> 	>
	> 	> gavin
	> 	>
	> 	>
	> 	>
	> 	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
	>
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