Re: Fairly simple linux firewall query
From: Garf (garf@roadum.org.uk)Date: 09/04/02
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From: Garf <garf@roadum.org.uk> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 21:05:34 +0100
jason keble wrote:
> I am about to get broadband at home which will connect onto my existing
> home network of a switch and 2 pcs. Win2k laptop and a linux redhat 7.1
> server. The win2k laptop is my main machine and has firewall software
> running on it.
>
> My broadband router does have some firewall stuff built in ie nat and
> will simply be pluggin into my hub.
>
> The linux box is just used for storing backups and reference material on
> it. This machine needs no internet access at all and I want to
> basically ensure that it cannot be accessed externally.
>
> The simplest solution appears to setup iptables on it to only accept
> requests
> from a specified mac address ie my laptop and reject everything else. I
> use samba to access the server from the laptop.
>
> Does this seem a feasible solution.
You could just use tcpwrappers on the RH 7.1 box through the files
/etc/host.allow and /etc/host.deny
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