[wellylug] April Meeting

Ilia Pavlenko ip at globe.net.nz
Thu Mar 13 19:21:52 NZDT 2003


I had a chat on this topic with Alex at March LUG, but I'll join in too
with my box.

Ilia

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jamie Dobbs wrote:

> At the April meetng we will have the following presentation, by Alex Weiss:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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