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From: Rowan Reid <rreid@studio3arc.com>
Subject: RE: Firewall Question
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:48:46 -0700
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To: 'Bishop' <bishop@pacbell.net>, stewart.thompson@shaw.ca, 'HareRam' <hareram@sol.net.in>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org


> 
>         I have  a question for you guys. I will installing a 
> firewall on my linux box soon. My question is would it be 
> better for me to download a firewall software off then net , 
> or should I build my own firewall from scratch. Let me know 
> what you guys think, and which one would be better.

I'm fairly new to firewall, my last successful attepmed was using
Iptables, and the Strong Firewall script as a template. After learning
more about IPTables I definitely say start with a proven script then
follow It line for line making sure you understand it.


http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/howto/c-html/stronger-firewall-examples.
html#RC.FIREWALL-2.4.X-STRONGER