[Wylug-announce] ManLUG - Manchester Linux User's Group - November 2010 Meeting

[Richard Ibbotson]

                 ManLUG - Manchester Linux User's Group
         Meetings are free - please come along if you have the time

The Manlug meeting for November 2010 is taking place on 27th November


         Subject: Introduction to Iptables and Packet Filtering.

Richard
Speaker:  Ibbotson
- Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory). Upstairs.
- Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN.
- (Between Thomas Street and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called 
Common)"
  http://madlab.org.uk/
- Date: Saturday, 27th November 2010
* Starts: 14:00
* Approximate finish: 17:00

Summary
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Richard Ibbotson from ShefLUG has very kindly agreed to visit ManLUG, 
the talk is a brief introduction to Iptables and Packet Filter with 
some examples. He will show an easy to use graphical interface that 
should help the end user to understand how to eventually get to the 
point where they can write their own rules with a text editor.  

I shall be showing how it was when the GNU/Linux and BSD projects 
started up.  At that time it was assumed that everyone was able to use 
Emacs or vi at the time of being born to create tortuously complicated 
configuration rules for Iptables or Packet Filter.  In the present day 
you can just download and use graphical and pointer based software 
which will allow you to quickly build and configure a firewall to 
protect your workstation and data.  You still need to understand some 
simple networking technology but that doesn't take too long to learn.  
After the meeting there will be some notes and video here....

    http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/?page_id=174

If anyone wants to come along please do. Remember that parking a car 
in Manchester is almost impossible.  The best experience is given by 
taking the train from Leeds station.  

-- 
Richard
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