Moment of Truth?

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koko wrote:

> In the meantime, are there any immediate steps I can or should take if 
> I use my RH 7.2 box as gateway?  



Here's what I did for a gateway:

I set up an old 233 with 2 NIC's and a minimal installation of RH7.2. 
 One NIC was to my Cisco 675 which goes to my ISP and gets its IP 
address by DNCP,  the other to my home network where I assigned it a 
192.168.XXX.XXX series address.

Then I used the giptables gateway server script to set up a NAT 
firewall. This is a script-based firewall program that is by far and 
away the easiest to use that I've found.

Took about two hours, most of that installing RH. Running nmap against 
my external NIC IP address shows that no ports are open, which is what I 
want as I offer no services to the outside world.

Giptables is available from http://www.giptables.org/

BOF