Shawn wrote: > > A few questions I have after I installed Debian Potato 2.2r4 for a > firewall/gateway machine: > > 1) How do I get the second NIC card up for my external IP address? I know > it's something similar to this: " ifconfig eth1 address <IP#> netmask <mask > #> broadcast <bc#> " Also, how do I get it to stay in case the system needs > to be rebooted? Do I add it to rc.local? > add it to /etc/networks/interfaces file > 2) For ip-chains and ip-filter, what packages do I need to install? Someone > mentioned it once before, but I haven't had a chance to dig through the > archives to try and find it. Also, I saw some of these options when I first > started the install, but I wasn't exactly certain as to which one I needed, > so I left it alone and didn't select any. should be ipchains or iptables depending on the kernel you are using. debian's website has a nice package search the lets you search names and descriptions for a word to find packages. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Hope this helps, Eric -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 2008 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011227/22546c05/smime.bin