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Set up SuSEfirewall2

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Set up SuSEfirewall2

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- Firewalls are a very important topic. Servers serve a special purpose and that is to make services available to other users so you can't isolate your server, you have to make it available but at the same time you have to protect it. This course is not about firewalls, so we're not going to go into great detail but what I am going to show you is how to implement the details of a firewall in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. There is a nice tool to be used in YAST and it is towards the bottom and it's simply titled "Firewall" so I'm going to use that. The first thing it asks you about is startup; do you want to enable the firewall automatically on Boot and, also, do you want to start it now? So I'm going to say go ahead and enable this when it starts and the next thing we have to do is take a look at our interfaces. I've created three here so we can have one of each kind. If we take ethernet zero, I can make this internal. If I take ethernet one, I'm going to make this DMZ, and for our…

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