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>The purpose of this guide is to provide an easy solution for limiting incoming
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traffic, thus preventing our LAN
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>This is useful when our internet link is slow or our LAN users
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download tons of mp3s and the newest Linux distro's *.iso files.</P
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this HOWTO are in any way responsible for physical, financial, moral or any
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>This document is copyright 2001 by Tomasz Chmielewski, and is
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released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
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which is hereby incorporated by reference. </P
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>1.4. Feedback and corrections</A
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>If you have questions or comments about this document, please feel free
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to mail Tomasz Chmielewski at <A
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>. I welcome any suggestions
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or criticisms. If you find a mistake or a typo in this document (and you will
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find a lot of them, as English is not my native language), please let me know
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so I can correct it in the next version. Thanks.</P
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>I would like to thank Ami M. Echeverri lula@pollywog.com who helped me to
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convert the HOWTO into SGML format and corrected some mistakes. I also want to
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thank Ryszard Prosowicz prosowicz@poczta.fm for useful suggestions.</P
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