Re: LAN Security Help
From: D. Stussy (kd6lvw_at_bde-arc.ampr.org)
Date: 05/04/03
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Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 00:16:54 GMT
On Sat, 3 May 2003, Kevin wrote:
> I recently got a project to built up a LAN (with wireless access
> point), which has one computer acting as a host and connected to
> Internet, and other computers within the LAN connect to Internet
> through the host comeputer either by cable or wireless.
>
> The point is I want the host computer to manage all internet access requests
> from LAN clients, e.g.redirect firstly all ip packets from clients to
> the host computer web server(then it can do something like
> authentication, establish a secure tunnal with the client, etc.),
> rather than just passively pass the packets forwards or backwards
> bewteen the clients and Internet. But I'm not good at networking, so I
> have no idea how to achieve that without writing any code except web
> pages, and just utilize the service provided by OS, such as XP, Linux
> or OpenBSD. Can any one give me some suggestion or direction as to how
> to approach this kind of problem? Any advice are highly appreciated!
man iptables.
Iptables is the current Linux FIREWALL code for the 2.4 kernel series. You
should probably already be using it for nat/masquerading purposes on the
computer with the Internet connection.
ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/iptables - current (or recent) version is 1.2.8.
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