On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 16:55, jdow wrote: > You do not need ipchains. > You do not want ipchains. Thought as much. Thanks for confirming it. > Before making any changes: > > You do want to visit http://www.netfilter.org/ and http://ipmasq.cjb.net/ > and read what they have to offer. > You do want to plan your firewall setup. Many utilities exist to help. Well I was hoping for something pretty simple, because this stuff confuses me no end. Basically the ONLY connections I want to allow are from VMware VMs running on the same machine. Therefore I was really hoping that redhat-config-securitylevel would do it for me. I just don't understand the relationship between "Trusted devices" and "Allow incoming". > When you have the iptables firewall script first draft hammered out: > > You do want to "service ipchains stop" then "rpm -e ipchains". > You do want to run iptables, "service iptables start" and > "chkconfig iptables on". I've stopped and removed ipchains. iptables and ip6tables are already running. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================
