August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
28h 15m
English
Any system that is directly connected to the Internet is potentially vulnerable to attacks by hackers and other malicious people. After reading this chapter, you should know how to limit the kinds of traffic that your system will accept, making it much harder for attackers to break in. You should also know how to set it up as a masquerading gateway that protects hosts on an internal LAN which still allows them access to the Internet. Finally, you should know how to set up a transparent proxy and configure port forwarding, if required, on your network.
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