Re: Need Firewall

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft com>]

We have all Windows machines behind the firewall and I am wondering if
I'll be able to using programs like windows media player, ICQ and such.
Does anyone know if this will work under linux using IPchains?

Aaron

Florin Andrei wrote:
> 
> Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> >
> > I just remembered another question I had. When setting up a Firewall, do
> > I need to buy a NIC card that has both input/output or do I buy two
> > seperate NIC cards (one for in and one for out)?
> 
>         Your network must be like this:
> 
>            +-----------+
> Internet   |           |    Intranet
> -----------+ Firewall  +---+----+----+----+---
>            |           |   |    |    |    |
>            +-----------+   |    |    |    |
>                             other machines
> 
>         So, you have to put 2 NICs, one connected to your own network, the other to
> the Internet, so all the traffic passes through the firewall, wich is also the
> gateway.
> 
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> Florin Andrei
> Network Administrator - Expert Solutions Provider SRL, Turnu Severin, Romania
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