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3. Firewall and masquerading scripts

You need the S.u.S.E. package firewall which can be installed by using YaST or rpm. It's distrubuted with the S.u.S.E. CDs or you can download it from the S.u.S.E. FTP site.

It contains the following files:

  /sbin/init.d/masquerade           Setting up masquerading
  /sbin/init.d/firewall             Setting up the firewall
  /sbin/fcii                        Daemon used for IP redirecting
  /etc/fw-ssh                       List of hosts that have ssh permissions
  /etc/fw-friends                   List of friends
  /etc/fw-inout                     List of hosts that have access
                                    to the  Internet
  /usr/doc/packages/firewall/*      Documentation on the firewall package

Also included are some links that provide starting up everything at boot time.

The current version is 1.4. This ducument refers to this version. Please update your firewall package if you have a version prior to 1.4.


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