Meeting notes from April 5, 2000


SLUG meeting notes April 5, 2000 by Mike Lamb





   Announcements



   Syrlug needs a secretary to take notes. So go volunteer.


   Mark gave (Part 1 of) a presentation about how to use ipchains to build a firewall in linux.



   Description of packets

   Desctription of interfaces (loopback, ppp0, eth0)

   A few ipchains rules and discussion of how they work.

   To be continued next month. [ Do you want more detail here? If Mark's not going to provide it, i might be able to help you out. ]


   A member brought in a video he bought with $65 out of his own pocket. (What a ripoff!) CNN's "Mover$" interview with Linus Torvalds. Very cool.

   Q&A



   Some questions on IPchains, will be covered next month (?)

   Member has problems with boot sector after installing Corel Linux OS

   Member needs help installing programs (specifically, Netscape 4.8?) from a tar.gz file under Caldera's Distro, v. 2.x