Freesco firewall, PPPoE and ssh

[Alan Dayley]

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 10:08 pm, you wrote:
> http://lists.q-linux.com/pipermail/plug/2001-June/006335.html says:
>
> "Freesco does not support PPoE officially but
> the setup files are in ftp://www.tecknojunky.com/pub/pppoe4freesco/
> Just grab all the files there and along with the
> latest .27 version from www.freesco.org, one can have
> a diskette router-based PPoE with ipchains,
> masquerade, dial-in ppp server etc. Coyote Linux also
> supports ADSL/PPoE.  Just search their docs and forums
> for DSL inquiries."
>
> So the answer appears to be Yes, but not out of the box.
>
> > and dynamic IP?
>
> Yes.

Cool.  A little more challange but challange is good.

> You can configure the telnet server so it only appears on your internal
> interface and is blocked from the external interface.  No ssh support that
> I know of.  What I do when I want to mess with the firewall from outside is
> to ssh to one of the boxes behind my firewall (I configure freesco to let
> ssh through to the web server) and then telnet back to the firewall from
> there.

I simply did not think of that.  Going through and then back to the firewall 
from the inside.  Good.

Thanks for the pointers!  I have a project for this weekend.

Alan