MESSAGE
| DATE | 2002-11-05 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
|
| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: [nylug-talk] directions needed
|
Depending on what you want to do, setting up the firewall might be a
little more complicated that just reading the manual.
Which However, if you want to just set it up to not let anthing through the gateway,
this is quite simple, assuming you run nothing on the gateway.
We'll be here late tonight
Ruben
On 2002.11.05 16:29 Michael Levy wrote:
> Our office primarily runs machines running Windows 2000 (hack,
> please. we want you to. really.) and we recently got dsl. He
> bought a hardware firewall, but how anyone would be able to see if
> that firewall was byassed is beyond us.
>
> Anyhow, we believe that our system was attacked within the last week.
> We lost a good two or three hours where our workstations couldn't
> access the server where we have all our office and autocad files. I
> suggested to my boss that we set up a small linux box as a firewall,
> since I remember reading about that somewhere.
>
> My boss was agreeable to the idea; he likes Linux and knows how
> powerful it is. I've mentioned before how AutoCAD is our only
> impediment from switching over to Linux. Lucky me, my boss said that
> coming up with a Linux firewall solution would be up to me.
>
> I know that first and foremost, I should RTFM, and then failing that,
> I should ask all of you for help. If anyone knows some good M's that
> I can R, then I'll get to cracking at RTFM.
>
> Of course, any suggestions and solutions will be appreciated. I'd
> bother Rubin at the installfeast he's holding here in Brooklyn, but
> something came up with my wife and I won't be able to make it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now
> http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
> _______________________________________________
> The nylug-talk mailing list is at nylug-talk-at-nylug.org
> To subscribe or unsubscribe: http://herzl.nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-talk
>
--
__________________________
Brooklyn Linux Solutions
__________________________
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com
http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting
http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn....
1-718-382-0585
____________________________
New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
|
|
