[Sheflug] Re: Network Goes on Holiday

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> Well, I couldn't get my firewall to work on my Debian box
    Richard> and I realised that it was because the address of my
    Richard> workstation was wrong.

Richard, if the network admin doesn't know what the output of "route"
means, the network doesn't have a firewall, except by accident.

If you care about security, I really suggest you start reading some
HOWTOs.  Start with Networking-Overview-HOWTO and Net-HOWTO, then go
on to some and eventually all of

DNS-HOWTO
Firewall-HOWTO
IP-Masquerade-HOWTO
IP-Masquerade
IPCHAINS-HOWTO
NET-3-HOWTO
NET3-4-HOWTO
Online-Troubleshooting-HOWTO
Securing-Domain-HOWTO
Security-HOWTO
Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO
VPN-HOWTO
VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO
mini/Firewall-Piercing
mini/Home-Network-mini-HOWTO
mini/IP-Masquerade
mini/IP-Subnetworking
mini/VPN

It's not like there isn't enough information on this topic about.  And
there are plenty of good books on the topic too.

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