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Date:	Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:36:13 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Firewall Experience, Anyone??

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Harry Chris Motin wrote:
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> I'm interested in getting an OS/2 Internet software firewire.

Hi Harry,

There's an Injoy mail list hosted by the developer. Go to
http://www.fx.dk/ or http://www.fx.dk/contacts.html and choose "Product
Mailing Lists". I think the list is on Yahoo! Groups and it's called
injoy_products (http://groups.yahoo.com/ I think).

There's a firewall embedded in TCP/IP and as I recall there's some
third-party info and a setup program called Zampa
(http://www.mo.himolde.no/~ltning/os2/) to configure it. Search on
Hobbes for "firewall" and "zampa". I have some links somewhere if you
can't find the stuff. Also try
http://emil.alarmix.org/kofa/articles/firewall/fw_eng.html and the IBM
Redbook documentation is at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg242577.pdf and
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/SG245201 and there's
a utility called ServerConfig/2 which among other things supposedly
configures the IBM TCP/IP firewall
(http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dm898/soft.html or
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dm898/sc/). Gary Wong's September Download!
column (http://www.scoug.com/OS24U/2002/SCOUG209.DOWNLOAD.HTML) said
that for the latest info "Use search key firewall_doc on Hobbes".

Might be some articles on OS/2 firewalls in past issues of OS/2 eZine
(http://www.os2ezine.com/) and OS2 Voice
(http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html). Check their archives.

There's a *nix firewall called ip[something.or.other -- ipstream?
ipgate?] but I've never seen a port of it to OS/2. I did go to a
presentation on it once and it appeared to be simple yet powerful --
just a long list of rules. If you know a Linux guru and can find out
the name of the thing, maybe there's a port to OS/2.

Tim Katz, whom you may know from SCOUG meetings, uses Injoy Firewall.
He's not on this list but if you want his email address, ask me
privately.

I bought a hardware firewall a while back (SMC Barricade) and it works
okay but the logging is almost non-existent (and is buggy). Since I
like to create error reports, I probably would have been happier with
Injoy Firewall.

- Peter

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