Re: Basic linux firewall

[richard hauswald <staenker@rhcs.de>]

scarab@echostar.pl wrote:

>Hi,
>I don't know if I'm writing to right mailing list but I have problem and i 
>hope you could help me solve it. I must write simple linux firewall. I tried 
>find any information about how to start but most of them was useless. It is 
>very important for me because in this year I'm finishing university and 
>trying get engineering degree. It mustn't be advanced linux firewall, it can 
>filter only TCP packets (although  I'd like to do it as advanced as it 
>possible). Could anybody give me some information where can i find some 
>documents, books or something like that about how to start etc? I knew that 
>propably somebody asked for that here before and I tried to find something in 
>netfilter-devel archive but i didn't success.
>Thank you
>
>PS. Sorry for my poor English 
>
>
>  
>
ok, understand what you want. in generell man iptables give you all 
information for using the programm iptables. but you will also need a 
bit network brain...:-)
To solve this known problem, Robert R. Ziegler wrote a book:
http:// 
www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827262577/qid=1110443595/sr=8-9/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i9_xgl/302-8865415-2152020
ok, its the german part of amazon, but I'm shure you will also find it 
at amazon for poland...
Regards
Richard Hauswald

PS: I'm excusing your poor english, mine is not better. But i thought 
posting with real names is a question of cheerfulness ;-)