Have you tried using one of the single floppy linux routers. Most will allow you to open specific ports to specific machines running servers and such. I have used freesco with a cable modem and a dialup line. You can get freesco from www.freesco.org Joseph Key Brian wrote: > > I just got my cable modem up and running. My plan is to plug a linux box > into the cable modem as a router and have multiple boxen behind it. I > also want to run Apache, sendmail, IRC, SSH, and a few other services on > it. The problem is firewalling. I like to write TIGHT scripts (after > being comprimised once I'm a little over-paranoid) by opening up just the > service I need and DENYing any other packet from any source that's not on > my specific guest list. > > The problem here is that everything inside the router gets blocked. ICQ, > Napster, and a plethora of other oddball IP apps stop working because I've > firewalled them out, but I don't want people breaking into my router. Is > there a good way to run this setup? > > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list