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Setting up hosts as a network firewall
From the course: Protecting Your Network with Open Source Software
Setting up hosts as a network firewall
- [Instructor] Compared to setting up a router host, adding new network firewall features is fairly straightforward. Let's set up our Ubuntu router host as a network firewall in this lesson. Network firewalls handle service requests by either blocking them or providing port forwarding. The prerequisite for port-forwarding is a host set up as a router, which in our case is the Ubuntu router host. We need to add some new firewall rules to enable port-forwarding that routes a network service request to an appropriate host behind a firewall. The Ubuntu router host firewall adheres to some default rules already. For example, is dropping all the ingress traffic or incoming traffic and it forwards all the egress or outgoing traffic to the internet. In addition to these default rules we need to add the following port-forwarding details. First of all, we need to open port 80 on the Ubuntu router host and then send all the…
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Setting up hosts as a network firewall3m 11s
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Setting up a web server3m 41s
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Port forwarding5m 28s
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Testing port forwarding33s
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Understanding one-legged DMZ2m 44s
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Understanding true DMZ1m 32s
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Understanding an application proxy firewall4m
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Setting up Squid5m 16s
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