Newbie firewall/masqarade/proxy confusion

[Doug Winterburn]

Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 07:38:40 -0700
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
From: "Alan Dayley" <ADayley@adtron.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie firewall/masqarade/proxy confusion
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Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us

At 02:38 AM 8/1/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Am 31. Jul, 2000 schwäzte Alan Dayley so:
>
Alan,

Another firewall resource is: http://www.pointman.org/pmfirewall/

-Doug Winterburn

>The URL Doug sent seems very interesting and might better serve what you
>need, but mine's probably better if you want to understand what it's doing
>and be able to learn more.

I will be looking at them all!  I want to learn!

>> What I want to make is my Linux box providing a single "presence"
>> to the internet while the workstations "behind" the Linux box can
>> surf and do email without being "visible" to the internet.  What
>> combination of firewall/masqarade/proxy stuff do I need?
>
>Start off with a firewall that does masquerading (aka NAT). As you learn
>more you can move to proxies or more advanced firewalling setups. If you
>just want it to work without having to know the process, then a plain
>firewall/masqerade setup is the way to go.

All you guys on the email list are helping loads!

Alan

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