Re: [cobalt-users] Basic Firewall on Qube 3

[Rod Poplarchick <rod@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Dogsbody <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:53:46 +0100
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Basic Firewall on Qube 3
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a newbie to Cobalt and have just bought a Qube 3 for my home network.
> I always thought I understood TCP & Firewalls on a basic level but now I'm
> lost,
> I can do the basic setup allowing everything on my network to see the Qube
> fully
> and only allowing access from the internet to the services I want them to see.
> 
> The place where I have problems is the forwarding/masquerading of my network
> traffic allowing the hosts to fully see the internet.  It seems no matter how
> I
> configure it I either feel that I have left the Qube wide open (maybe
> misguided)
> or I have trouble with some services accessing the net.
> 
> I have searched through the archive and also the net but the main problem is
> that I can only find help for IP Chains and not for the lovely GUI that Cobalt
> give everything.  I see a number of you have mentioned that it is not a good
> idea to to modify settings withough going though the GUI so I am loathed to do
> anything that way but understand if it's the only way.  It seems that one of
> the
> easiest ways to enable replies to get back to the network is allowing SYN
> packets back in but the GUI does not seem to let you specify this.
> 
> I really hope I am not asking something obvious but I have been looking all
> over
> the place for the last few days and just can't find anything.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dan
> dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.dogsbody.org
> 
I see you work for Sun! There is no one there that knows how to answere your
question?  Just a thought.