Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls |
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Wes Sonnenreich, Tom Yates
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Pages: 384 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0471353663
Pub: John Wiley & Sons
Pub date: 2000-03-06
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 868746
Reader Reviews:
At last ! Some help for the novice BSD installer (2/2 people found this helpful)
I bought this book as much for its assistance in setting up a functioning OpenBSD setup, as I did for the specific information on firewalling (although this part of the content is also very useful). The book is sufficiently simple to allow an (almost :-) ) complete novice to get OpenBSD up and running on a bare bones system - and the step by step instructions for this alone are worth the money. A mark of the success of this book is that I have already lent it to a couple of colleagues from whom I have had great difficulty getting it back.
[Oh, and by the way, it is easy to get a copy of OpenBSD in the UK - just order it via openbsd.org ]
Humourous, very useful, comletely self-contained (1/1 people found this helpful)
The authors have done an excellent job of making a dry subject very readable. The book starts with an superb introduction to networking & the major areas of security risk, and then goes on to lead the reader step by step through building the firewall. The coverage was clear and complete, from loading the OS to tweaking the end result. Definitely the first book you should buy if you are thinking of setting up a firewall on a Linux box.
Excellent & Easy To Use (2/2 people found this helpful)
This book provides a good basic grounding of the whole internet security 'thing' as well as a clear and consice step by step guide to setting up two Open Source firewalls. My only quibble (and this has nothing to do with the book) is trying to find a copy of OpenBSD in the UK.
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