[plug] Accessing the net via my firewall

Russ Pitman rpitman at odyssey.apana.org.au
Sun Nov 11 17:43:31 WST 2001


On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:57:01PM +0800, Christian M?ller wrote:
> try setting up squid, which is a proxy server and then point your proxy in 
> your browser to the firewall machine on port 3218
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
>
Thanks,I expect to do something like that after the firewall is installed,
but if it won't work without a firewall I recon its broke a bit lower down?

I'll go download squid for afters.

 
> At 16:27 11/11/2001 +0800, you wrote:
> >I have set up an old pentium box to use as a firewall. The network has only
> >a workstation and the firewall at this stage, haven't even got ipchains
> >installed as yet,still testing :-)
> >
> >        So far I can do mostly all things from the workstation. Run ppp to
> >logon etc,but when try to use a browser I get "cannot make a connection"
> >error.
> >
> >        I -think- that I need a line/lines in inetd.conf to enable port 80,
> >/etc/services list two for www. one tcp another udp. Tried a couple but i
> >can't find a sample entry to show the complete syntax.
> >
> >If this is the problem could someone point where to look or show a sample?
> >
> >Otherwise any suggestions appreciated.
> >
> >Running Debian potato Kernel version 2.2.19pre17 on the 'firewall' and 
> >2.4.9
> >on the workstation. I'll post all the configs and outputs if necessary
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >--
> >                    ----russ----
> >
> >
> >
> 

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