KLUG Meeting Minutes and Agenda (#12) The twelfth meeting of the Kingston Linux User Group was held Mon, Oct. 4, 1999 at 7PM at Chapters. The meeting lasted until about 10:00 PM. The attendees were: Blum, Richard <> Conrad-Avarmaa, Brigitte Doppo, Gary <> Drummond, Mark Dunne, Shane Farnell, Cam Gauthier, Daniel Harker, Steve Healy, Art Jezak, Edward Lamb, David MacKinnon, James Mitton, Douglas Moizer, David Parkinson, Sean <> Shoucri, Rachad Williams, Steve Meeting Schedule: (Monthly, alternating between first Mon and Wed evenings at 7PM. Locations to be determined.) 13 - Wed, Nov. 3 at RMC. (Software management (RPMs, source code)) OR (Social night!) 14 - Wed, Dec. 1 at RMC. (Managing Window Managers (KDE, GNOME, WindowMaker, etc)) 15 - Wed, Jan. 5 at RMC. (*** KLUG 1st Anniversary!) Summary Of Activities: - Web page host and domain name - klug.on.ca has been registered(not yet in use). - Internet presence - Temporary web page at http://signals.rmc.ca/klug. - Mailing list - klug-subscribe@lists.rmc.ca (send an _empty_ email.) Agenda/Minutes: 1) Roll Call and Introductions (if required) - See attendees above. We may have to be more careful about doing this. Especially if there are new people there. 2) This Meeting: There were 17 attendees for Mark Drummonds "IPChains and Masquerading (2.2.x Kernels)" presentation. This was an update to the first presentation we had on Apr. 7 by Rick Malone on ipfwadm ... the mechanism used in the 2.0.x kernels. Very basically IP Masquerading is the ability for multiple networked computers (for instance in your home) to share a single internet connection (any of PPP, cable, ADSL, ISDN, etc). There are many reasons for this ... a major one being that you save the cost of additional internet connections for the individual computers. The IPChains is the command or mechanism to implement this feature in the 2.2.x+ kernels. Mark started out by describing firewalling in general, some different ways of accomplishing the same result. he then described how ipchains implememnts masquerading by modifying and forwarding the data packets to/from the internet, and then went through some of the reasons you would want to implement IP Masq with a lot of the rules implemented ... and some of the attacks that are available to be made on your machine. He also handed out a very handy "IP Chains Quick Reference". The rest of the presentation involved going through an example rule set and explaining the syntax and the actual function of each of the rules. Mark has promised to make the notes from his presentation available in the KLUG web page for your reference. The rest of the meeting involved a discussion of the design for a KLUG button. David Lamb had the ooriginal few made up for the Queens install fest. Shane Dunne made a couple of changes to the design, basically text around the outside edge to identify KLUG. If you are interested contact David and let him know, if we get enough interest and hit the "price break" point they will be cheaper for all. 3) Next Meeting: - Wed, Nov. 3 at RMC. (Software management (RPMs, source code)) or it will be a social night ... stay tuned to the mailing list for a confirmation! 4) Socialize / Adjourn (Set location and agenda for the next meeting.)