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RootPrompt.org: They Can't Crack What They Can't FindSep 11, 2000, 18:10 (1 Talkback[s])(Other stories by noeld) [ Thanks to Noel for this link. ] "The Internet today is a jungle full of predators. Some of these predators are trying to crack your machine others are just looking for a machine to crack. By using the firewalling tools built into the Linux kernel it is possible to make a desktop machine virtually disappear from the crackers view." "In this article I will describe how to hide a machine running Linux that uses PPP over a modem to connect to the Internet. I will use ipchains and the firewalling built into the Linux kernel to protect the services that are running on this machine from connections across the PPP interface." "For this example, I will use a Debian system with a 2.2.15 Linux kernel on a Debian system. You should note that the firewalling code in the 2.4 Kernel has undergone a rewrite, but that the examples in this article will still work by loading the ipchains compatibility module." Related Stories:
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