Internet Security College of Engineering & CS Wright State University Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001

A Linux-Based Firewall Construction   Prabhaker Mateti   Abstract:    This work is supported in part by NSF DUE-9951380.

Table of Contents

1. Educational Objectives
2. Lab Experiment
3. Acknowledgements
4. References

Educational Objectives

Lab Experiment

All work should be carried out in the Operating Systems and Internet Security (OSIS) Lab, 429 Russ.   Use any of the PCs numbered 192.168.17.19 to .30.  No other WSU facilities are allowed. 

1. The following are links to two directories of files that can together be built as an ISO image to be burned as a bootable Linux CD.
   1. BootCD
   2. IPtables
2. The above were for a previous version of Linux kernel and distribution.  Update them and build a new bootable CD based on current versions of all needed components.

Acknowledgements

References

1. Oskar Andreasson, "Iptables Tutorial", 2001,   http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/ This is about 150 pages. Recommended Reading.
2. Robert L. Ziegler, and Carl B. Constaintine, "Linux Firewalls," 2nd Edition, ISBN: 0735710996, New Riders Publishing, October 2001. Describes how to set up a Linux based firewall using iptables.  Several scripts from the chapters of the book are on-line at http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/book/ . Reference.
3. Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, "Practical Unix and Internet Security,"  2nd edition (April 1996), O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565921488.  Errata: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/puis/errata/ Chapter 21: Firewalls.  Required Reading.
4. Prabhaker Mateti, Packet Filters, June 2000.  A lecture from a course on Internet Security. http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/PacketFilter/ Required Reading.
5. Thomas M. Eastep, "ShoreWall: IP Tables Made Easy," http://www.shorewall.net/ , May 2003.  This is a front end to IP tables.  Recommended visit/download.