After running my internet gateway for almost 2 years with only TCP Wrappers for protection (and without any incidence) and scared me enough to implement some ipchains – yeah I know they have been superceded by iptables but then that is a different story.

Amongst other things I discovered in a conversation with Vaibhav that VMWare on my RH 7.3 was old – upgrading to 3.1.1 worked…

Posting this using LochJournal – I still dont like the interface