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10/04/2003 02:23:39 PM (21 years ago)
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Larry Lawrence <larry@…>
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compound word edits, a2ps expanded intro

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@1303 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

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  • postlfs/security/firewalling/intro.xml

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    11<sect2 id="postlfs-security-fw-intro" xreflabel="Firewalling Introduction">
    2 <title>Introduction to Firewalling</title>
     2<title>Introduction to Firewall Creation</title>
    33
    44<para>The general purpose of a firewall is to protect a network
    … …  
    1616may wish to choose which services are accessible by certain machines,
    1717you may wish to limit which machines or applications are allowed
    18 to have internet access, or you may simply  not trust some of your
     18to have Internet access, or you may simply  not trust some of your
    1919apps or users.
    2020In these situations you might  benefit by using a firewall.</para>
    … …  
    3939<para>This is a setup or program, for Windows commercially sold by
    4040companies such as Symantec, of which they claim or pretend that it
    41 secures a home or desktop-pc with internet access. This topic is
     41secures a home or desktop-pc with Internet access. This topic is
    4242highly relevant for users who do not know the ways their computers
    43 might be accessed via the internet and how to disable these,
     43might be accessed via the Internet and how to disable these,
    4444especially if they are always online and if they are connected via
    4545broadband links.</para></sect3>
    4646
    4747<sect3><title><xref linkend="postlfs-security-fw-masqRouter"/></title>
    48 <para>This is a box placed between the internet and an intranet.
     48<para>This is a box placed between the Internet and an intranet.
    4949To minimize the risk of compromising the firewall itself it
    5050should generally have only one role, that of protecting the intranet.
    … …  
    5252and eventually IP masquerading (rewriting IP-headers
    5353of the packets it routes from clients with private IP-addresses onto
    54 the internet so that they seem to come from the firewall
     54the Internet so that they seem to come from the firewall
    5555itself) are commonly considered harmless.</para></sect3>
    5656
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