On Thursday 19 May 2005 23:43, Jason Opperisano wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:13:26PM +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote: > > I have learn't quite a bit from this, I shall save this mail for future > > use. By the way, this is my first attempt at my own firewall, mostly an > > effort to learn and understand. I always used the Redhat default or > > Susefirewall2. But am not confident that they do the job right, also I > > never really understood how to customise them. Hence build your own, Ha > > hA, not s easy when you haven't got the knowledge, but I am sure I will > > get there. > > might i suggest a reading of Oskar's tutorial: > > http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html > > -j > > -- > "Peter: Oh, and sorry about that comment earlier. I have that disease > that makes you swear involuntarily. Sonofabitch. Sonofabitch. > Sonofabitch. See?" > --Family Guy Would it be safe to set the OUTPUT default policy to ACCEPT? Every time I set it to DROP I get locked out, I suppose it has to do with the fact that I have no rules for the OUTPUT chain. -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================
