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Old 03-20-2002
Firewall for Sparc Spolaris Box
Hello,

I in the process of installing a firewall. I'm new to this topic and would like to know if someone can point me in the right direction.
I'm running Solaris 8.

Thanks in advance.
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Old 03-21-2002
I'm currently installing a firewall running Mandrake Linux, and I'm using "iptables". I don't know if Solaris supports that, but if so, read the man pages for iptables, and try this link:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/x-0...ll.future.html

It helped me quite well.
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Old 03-21-2002
I believe that iptables is Linux only. It's support is built into the kernel...

You could always have a very inexpensive man-in-the-middle Linux box between the Solaris machine and a public network.

I've never used it, but I think Sun has a product called SunScreen...
Anyone here use it?
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