dual nic setup in Debian

[Gregory Nowak]

My recommendation would be to drop ipchains and go for iptables. I use the endoshield script for my firewall, and found that it is very flexible, easy to set up, expandable, and works very well.
http://endoshield.sourceforge.net
Greg


On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:51:05AM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> If anyone has a Debian fireall box using two nics and some services
> running on it, please help!!!!
> 
> I'm fairly certain my ipchains script is ok, but here's what happening.
> 
> I booted the box and it has all the info my current Slackware
> server/firewall box has so in other words the ips are correct and the
> nics I've installed appear to be up and showing the correct ips as well.
> I simply can't get outside my own firewall. I tried flushing the rules,
> but not so sure that is the problem either. I will say that I am running
> a 2.4.18 kernel and added in the ipchains style packet filtering to work
> with my old ipchains script I copied from my current Slackware box.
> I can ping both interfaces, both internal and external. It would appear
> that perhaps packets aren't being forwarded, but I probably am missing
> something somewhere.
> Does Debian have a document on how to setup my type of configuration? I
> may simply again be missing some critical step. Slack and Debian are
> different enough that I've probably simply missed something and have
> forgotten. I've had a working box for so long that I've not had to mess
> with it much.<grin>
> 
> tnx
> 
> Btw, has anyone upgraded an older Slackware install to a new one? Did
> the upgrade go well, was it simple enough as far as packages working out
> without blowups etc.? Did you have to boot off new boot and roots
> floppies to do the install?
> 
> I've heard getting the new Slackware is difficult and something about
> the floppies will not work?
> 
> tnx
> 
> 
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