On Thursday 24 February 2005 16:49, Sean O Sullivan wrote:
> Getting IBB, so wish to setup a machine to act as NAT/Firewall for
> rest of the network [...]
To be honest, your best bet is to use Shorewall to set up iptables for
you. Your approach should work, but it's quite labour-intensive and
hard to ensure it's error-free.
Shorewall takes almost all of the pain away. Shorewall good.
Colm
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