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Mike Markowski <mm <at> UDel.Edu> writes: |
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> Can anyone point me to a howto or advice for the following? |
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> On my gentoo box I have: |
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> I'd like to use this box as a router so that any wireless traffic |
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> through the WAP is routed appropriately between ppp0 and eth0. |
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Hello Mike, Setting up a router, based on Gentoo, kind of goes |
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hand in hand with building a firewall. (Note you need a firewall |
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so you are in charge of how your bandwidth and network resources |
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are allocated. If you do not secure your router, some body else |
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will perform stealth admin task on your network and limited resource. |
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I suggest you read quite a lot of information, before making your |
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final decistion. |
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Here are some links, in no special order, that you will find |
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interesting: |
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General Routing and Management: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server |
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http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.iproute2.explore.html |
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Firewalls: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_for_newbies |
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http://openchemist.net/linux/howto/files/theWall |
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http://kmyfirewall.sourceforge.net/ |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_and_stateful_firewalls#Should_I_take_this_tutorial |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=377447 |
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http://www.iptablesrocks.org/ |
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http://www.braingia.org/books/linuxfirewalls/ |
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http://daniel.6dns.org/info/iptables/ |
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I hope you find these sites useful. One note. There |
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are many tools for securing your router/network. |
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ON your sytem you can: |
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# ls /usr/portage/net-firewall |
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to see a listing of packaged tools for securiting your system. |
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Then you can read about them, knowing that if you want |
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to install one of them and test drive the software, it's |
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only an emerge away. |
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HTH, |
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James |
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