[plug] Debian firewalling

[Cameron Patrick]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:53:15AM +0800, smclevie wrote:

| I have had several goes and I tend to install everything into the kernel 
| (rather than as modules)

Installing stuff as modules makes things a lot easier.  (Of course, you
can go overboard... I'd not normally want to build in IDE support as a
module, for instance.  Network card drivers are borderline, too.)

| I am trying to avoid IPv6.  I also have relatively simple requirements at 
| this stage.  I am using the
| IP_Masq HOWTO by David Ranch but this isn't Debian specific.

<shameless PLUG> Have you looked at the slides from Tony's last talk?
They go into configuring this kind of thing with iptables

	http://www.plug.linux.org.au/~magni/network_talk3/

Cameron.