Ii will give it a try. I installed firewall builder on one of my clients, but have not gotten around to trying it yet.
Jule On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 21:56, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > > Hi, Thank you for your feedback, I took your advise i think..:) and > > this is what i came up with > > [...] > > > but now when i run the firewall, ports 2401 and 80 are not open, (nmap > > localhost) and nmap 140.232.x.x times out. I'm not sure what's wrong. > > TIA, > > Can I suggest that you look at using something a bit higher level than a > shell script with iptables commands in it? > > Personally, I recommend the 'firehol' script[1] to build your iptables > firewall. > > Not only is it easy enough to learn and use for someone who isn't very > familiar with iptables, the results *are* of excellent quality. > > I moved from using hand-written shell scripts to using Firehol, after a > number of years, because it was actually an improvement, unlike most > other "high level" firewall packages. > > Daniel > > > Footnotes: > [1] Packaged in unstable, or at <http://firehol.sf.net/>
