[cobalt-users] Re: ipchains and RaQ3

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:55 AM -0400 7/31/01, Nico Meijer is rumored to have typed:

> The rpm I installed was for RedHat 6.2. You find it here directly:
> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/6.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ipchains-1.3.9-5.i
> 386.rpm
>
> No problems whatsoever, everything went smooth as silk.

   Cool...I was a little concerned, since the latest version is 1.3.10-7. I
pulled both from redhat.com, and was wondering which to use.

> Good luck and definitely RTFM before you do anything... Nico

   I always recommend to folks new to ipchains the ipchains-HOWTO at:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html

   ...which has some great information, and is worth keeping locally as a
reference even if you're used to firewalling/forwarding.

> P.S. Tip 1: install openssh from openssh.org before anything else if you
> haven't done so already.

   Actually, that's also on my list-of-things-to-do ASAP; would you recommend
using the 2.9p1-1 .pkg available on pkg.nl.cobalt.com, or the 2.9p2 tarball
at openssh.org? (The .pkg is obviously less work to install, but if I should
have the latest-and-greatest, I'll cheerfully install from source.)

   Thanks for the info!

         Charlie