In article <Mdgrb.3206$nz.2035@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.n et>,
Adams-Blake Co. wrote:
> I think they are still looking for me! Somewhere there is a Selective
> Service bureaucrat who's sole job description is to find me and send me to
> Iraq! If so, I'll just go in, sing a few bars of Alice's Restaurant and
> walk out. ("You can get anything you want... at Alice's Restaurant

Then I'll go in after ya, and sing a few bars, and they'll think we're
both FAGGOTS,[1] and they won't want either of us![2]

Not far from me, in an unincorporated town[3] some 30km or so east of
Florence, Alabama, there once was a restaurant of that name. As you're
well aware, that was not the name of the restaurant from the song; it
was only the name of the SONG, which is why the song is called, "Alice's
Restaurant."

That fact notwithstanding, who among us[4] could possibly resist going
to a real-life "Alice's Restaurant"? So we went. No, they weren't Arlo
fans, but they did put out a decent home-style meal for a fair price.

The last time we went there was perhaps 4 years ago, with 2 messy
toddlers. Little folks like that aren't very good at using utensils.
They like using their hands. The waitress, about 50-ish, didn't like
such table manners, and was literally snatching food away from them.
With the proverbial tears in our eyes, we went away never to return.
Then the last time I saw the place it was closed.

So long, Alice. Give my regards to your husband Ray and Tasha the dog.


[1] No, not cigarettes.
[2] BTW I have a slightly amusing SS story of my own. Unfortunately I
don't wish to share it in a public forum. I was draft age in the
late Carter to mid-Reagan years, and although the draft never came
to pass in that time, it sure was threatened a lot. I was in the
first batch required to register in 1980.
[3] Center Star, Alabama.
[4] "Us" referring to Arlo fans.
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In article <nO2dnXVGfquUETCiRVn-hg@comcast.com>, !christian wrote:
> no tng plug?

No, as I replied to AthlonRob, it's really not that great a firewall as
compared to the likes of MonMotha's. It's tight, and relatively simple,
but it's not in that league.
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In article <slrnbqr162.23d.usenet@dustpuppy.no-dns-yet.org.uk>,
Simon <usenet@no-dns-yet.org.uk> writes:
>
> You can ignore the ipchains section, as that's only useful for 2.2.x
> kernels. Is there any particular part of it that you don't understand?
> It's geared towards people like yourself, so it would be useful to know
> what parts you had trouble with & which parts need more explanation
> (the book won't get better without feedback).

Ipchains confused me completely, I never managed to use it. I stuck
with ipfwadm until iptables showed up. My first iptables firewall
was basically the example cut and pasted from the HOWTO with the
masquerading bits added. I have added bits to it since then.


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Adams-Blake Co. wrote:
> Would some kind soul list the names of some packages that will install a
> firewall for 9.1. I read the "Security" section of the work-in-progress
> Slack book and I simply don't understand the ipchains/iptables stuff.
>
> Isn't there something like ZoneAlarm or Blackice that will work in Slack
> Linux for your average small business user and that does not take a Ph.D in
> computer science to install?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
>
You might also want to think about going over to Best Buy and spend
$30-$50 on a Linksys 4-port "Etherfast Cable / DSL Router." It does the
connecting for you (dial up, cable, or DSL), is a firewall, and lets you
connect four ethernet devices if you want to (one can be an additional
hub). Works fine, no fuss, no muss, no bother -- and, no software to
fiddle with or additional load on your system. I use one of these at
home, it supports two Slackware boxes, a network printer, plus my kid's
hub running a couple of (shudder) windows things. You might have to buy
an Ethernet card if you don't already have one in your box(es) -- you're
going to get one with your DSL stuff if you don't.

We use these things at work for small remote offices and for folks that
need high speed connections at home. Never had a problem of any kind
with them.

They work out of the box -- all you have to know is what you already
know about your ISP's addresses, settings, and the like. Five minutes if
you go get a cup of coffe and smoke a cigarette.

Thomas Ronayne <tronaREMOVETHIS@ameritech.net> says...

>You might also want to think about going over to Best Buy and spend
>$30-$50 on a Linksys 4-port "Etherfast Cable / DSL Router." It does the
>connecting for you (dial up, cable, or DSL), is a firewall, and lets you
>connect four ethernet devices if you want to (one can be an additional
>hub). Works fine, no fuss, no muss, no bother -- and, no software to
>fiddle with or additional load on your system. I use one of these at
>home, it supports two Slackware boxes, a network printer, plus my kid's
>hub running a couple of (shudder) windows things. You might have to buy
>an Ethernet card if you don't already have one in your box(es) -- you're
>going to get one with your DSL stuff if you don't.
>
>We use these things at work for small remote offices and for folks that
>need high speed connections at home. Never had a problem of any kind
>with them.
>
>They work out of the box -- all you have to know is what you already
>know about your ISP's addresses, settings, and the like. Five minutes if
>you go get a cup of coffe and smoke a cigarette.

Have you used the modem connection? I tried a similar product and
found that the modem would either do a time-out disconnect while in
the middle of a file transfre or would leave the modem connected for
hours after the last byte went through. Does the Linksys avoid this
problem?



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Thomas Ronayne wrote:

> Adams-Blake Co. wrote:
>> Would some kind soul list the names of some packages that will install a
>> firewall for 9.1. I read the "Security" section of the work-in-progress
>> Slack book and I simply don't understand the ipchains/iptables stuff.
>>
>> Isn't there something like ZoneAlarm or Blackice that will work in Slack
>> Linux for your average small business user and that does not take a Ph.D
>> in computer science to install?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Al
>>
> You might also want to think about going over to Best Buy and spend
> $30-$50 on a Linksys 4-port "Etherfast Cable / DSL Router." It does the
> connecting for you (dial up, cable, or DSL), is a firewall, and lets you
> connect four ethernet devices if you want to (one can be an additional
> hub). Works fine, no fuss, no muss, no bother -- and, no software to
> fiddle with or additional load on your system. I use one of these at
> home, it supports two Slackware boxes, a network printer, plus my kid's
> hub running a couple of (shudder) windows things. You might have to buy
> an Ethernet card if you don't already have one in your box(es) -- you're
> going to get one with your DSL stuff if you don't.
>
> We use these things at work for small remote offices and for folks that
> need high speed connections at home. Never had a problem of any kind
> with them.
>
> They work out of the box -- all you have to know is what you already
> know about your ISP's addresses, settings, and the like. Five minutes if
> you go get a cup of coffe and smoke a cigarette.

Hmmmm. I will go DSL or cable one of these days so maybe this is a good
idea. I didn't know that a router worked with dial-up modems. I thought
they only worked with cable or DSL hardware. Thanks.

Al

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> Would some kind soul list the names of some packages that will
> install a firewall for 9.1. I read the "Security" section of the
> work-in-progress Slack book and I simply don't understand the
> ipchains/iptables stuff.
>
> Isn't there something like ZoneAlarm or Blackice that will work in
> Slack Linux for your average small business user and that does not
> take a Ph.D in computer science to install?

If you've got the iptables packages installed (note you may wish to
consider recompiling your kernel, if there's something vis a vis
iptables that u need and doesn't appear to be available). Then use
something like webmin (http://www.webmin.com) to configure it
visually. I'm know there are others, but I've always used webmin
(though I used it slightly differently... I used it to create example
rules, which I then modified manually)

Martin

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Hello,

You could try Firestarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/). I've
never used it myself, but I've heard good things. I believe it is a
graphical front end to iptables, but I could be wrong.

Tony

Adams-Blake Co. wrote:
> Would some kind soul list the names of some packages that will install a
> firewall for 9.1. I read the "Security" section of the work-in-progress
> Slack book and I simply don't understand the ipchains/iptables stuff.
>
> Isn't there something like ZoneAlarm or Blackice that will work in Slack
> Linux for your average small business user and that does not take a Ph.D in
> computer science to install?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
>

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:47:05 +0000, Anthony Schmieder
<feet@kingston.net> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>You could try Firestarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/). I've
>never used it myself, but I've heard good things. I believe it is a
>graphical front end to iptables, but I could be wrong.
>
>Tony
>
>Adams-Blake Co. wrote:
>> Would some kind soul list the names of some packages that will install a
>> firewall for 9.1. I read the "Security" section of the work-in-progress
>> Slack book and I simply don't understand the ipchains/iptables stuff.
>>
>> Isn't there something like ZoneAlarm or Blackice that will work in Slack
>> Linux for your average small business user and that does not take a Ph.D in
>> computer science to install?

I've seen alot of very good comments about the Shorewall firewall.
The docs are very good.
http://shorewall.sourceforge.net/


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On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:20:50 +0000, Adams-Blake Co. wrote:

> Would some kind soul list the names of some packages that will install a
> firewall for 9.1. I read the "Security" section of the work-in-progress
> Slack book and I simply don't understand the ipchains/iptables stuff.
>
> Isn't there something like ZoneAlarm or Blackice that will work in Slack
> Linux for your average small business user and that does not take a Ph.D in
> computer science to install?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al

google a.o.l.s with "setting linux home gateway"