[ale] AT&T Broadbrand and Linux

[Michael Smith]

A repost to Chris Woodruff


Robert Ziegler, author of Linux Firewalls, has a site that will generate
firewall rules for ipchains and ipfwadm.  With the last couple of questions
I have seen on the list, I thought everyone would be interested.

It's at http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html

Just click on Configure Firewall and off you go.  I would also suggest
getting his book.  I learned a great deal from it.....

Michael A. Smith


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Woodruff [mailto:cwoodruff at worldwindtech.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:33 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] AT&T Broadbrand and Linux


I thought I would share my experiences with the list.  I had a cable
modem installed from AT&T (formerly MediaOne) on Tuesday.  The tech got
it running with Win98 and it was simple.  Loaded up a win32 firewall app
and was enjoying speeds up to 1100k.  I was told that next month AT&T
will be doubling the bandwidths on the network to 3000k from 1500k.  So
then I went to work with getting Linux to work with the cable modem.  I
was using RH 6.2 but couldn't get the system to find my new ethernet
card.  So I downloaded the RH 7 iso's (thanks to the person at GaTech
for the mirror), burned the CD's and reinstalled.  I was amazed to find
that after the install everything was working correctly.  I have to
recommend AT&T broadband.  They seem to have really corrected the issues
that MediaOne had.

My question is now about security.  What services do I shutdown to
secure my system to stop any havoc from the outside?  I have shutdown
sendmail and httpd.  Does anyone know of a good security site that will
help?

Thanks

Chris Woodruff
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