[wellylug] April Meeting
Lindsay Hunter
klhunter at paradise.net.nz
Thu Mar 13 17:42:36 NZDT 2003
Lindsay Hunter will be there with a PC.
Lindsay
Jamie Dobbs wrote:
>At the April meetng we will have the following presentation, by Alex Weiss:
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>Topic: Introduction to Linux firewalls/gateways.
>
>This 15-20 minute talk will give an introduction to configuring firewalls
>and gateways with Linux. The talk will be accompanied with practical
>demonstrations on the projector.
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>A firewall protects a network from attacks, while a gateway allows many
>computers on a network to access the internet via that gateway.
>Firewalls/gateways are essential tools for any modern network, small or
>large.
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>The firewalling/gateway technology used will be iptables (available with
>most 2.4.x kernel distros), and RedHat 8.0 will be used during the
>demonstration.
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>After the talk, interested members of the audience are invited to
>participate in a 20-30 minute informal lab to setup their own firewall
>and/or gateway (interested members should bring their own PC if interested
>in participating in the informal lab). Every effort will be made to
>ensure the lab will work with a wide variety of Linux distributions.
>Interested members should also ensure they have iptables installed before
>lab commencement.
>
>Can people please indicate their interest on this so we know how many people
>we will be catering for.
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