Re: [seul-edu] Re: HELP!

[Robert Hopcroft <hopcroft@uswest.net>]

Dave Prentice wrote:

>     Besides setting up a firewall (which I'm still trying to figure out), I
> obviously need to do something else. Short of reinstalling Linux from
> scratch, I don't know what to do.
>

After reading a number on books on firewalls, I came across the
following wich I would recommend.

Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls
Wes Sonnenreich
Tom Yates
Wiley ISBN 0-471-35366-3

There is some information at their web site
http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/sonnenreich

For a book on stopping breakins try

Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions
Stuart McClure
Joel Scambray
George Kurtz
Osborne/McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-212127-0

Bob