Re: first gateway box

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:30:24 -0700
"daniel" <[email protected]> wrote:

> well now that i have all that out of the way
> anyone know of a good HOWTO for setting up a gateway?
> i would imagine that there's more too just pluggin in the cables and setting
> things up so tht my internal boxes can see the gateway and the gateway can
> see the world.  do i need some sort of routing software?  or is an iptables
> firewall running nat good enough?
> 
That's good enough for the basic functionality. After that, look into iptables as a firewall for security purposes.

Try this site for info on setting up firewalls. There are a ton of others as well. Google is your friend here.

http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/

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