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Re: Proxy/Router/Firewall? with The Wave

Brian Bray
Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:37:42 -0700

Geoff Smith wrote:
>
> I will be getting the Wave
> within the week, and I have three other people in my house who would like
> to use it as well. At the moment, I'm not particularly concerned
> with my computer being accessable from the Internet, I would just like to
> be able to access the net using the Wave and have the other three people
> be able to do the same thing at the same time. When I say "access the
> net", I mean using the web/icq/irc/ftp/telnet/etc...
>
> Which HOW-TOs should I be following? Should I be NAT/IP-masquerading,
> routing, firewalling, proxying(SOCKS?), or something else? I trust
> everyoe who will be on my LAN, but I would prefer to have things secure
> enough that no one could do damage to my system by accident...
>
I followed the IP-Masq mini howto, along with the NET3 howto to
configure my wave setup. Also, Andrew Daviel and others have writen
Linux/Wave pages. You can start at:

http://home.bc.rogers.wave.ca/adaviel/

These cover the security issues quite well.

-Brian