Interesting mail on some other mailing list -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [svlug] firewall utility Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:41:19 -0800 From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Quoting Ron Hinchley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there a good firewall utility to simplify the construction of a > firewall and NAT. All I want is a basic firewall with some ports open > inside the firewall but closed to the outside. Please advise. GUI front-ends to iptables include fwbuilder, GNOME lokkit, fireflier, firestarter, Guarddog, Guidedog, gShieldConf, Knetfilter, and LutelWall. There are lots more. Scripts and C programs that do it for you include MonMotha's Firewall, Firewallscrip, Ferm, AGT, gSshield, Or you can use Webmin. Me, I just look at Rusty's Remarkably Unreliable Guides when I need to figure something out that I've forgotten: http://people.netfilter.org/~rusty/unreliable-guides/ Especially useful bits: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1 http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//packet-filtering-HOWTO-5.html Good, quick tutorials linked from Rusty Russell's site: http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Security/IPtables_Basics.html http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1236/urm0104l/0104l.htm http://davidcoulson.net/writing/lxf/14/iptables.pdf -- Cheers, I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, Rick Moen which, when you looked at it in the right way, did [EMAIL PROTECTED] not become still more complicated. -- Poul Anderson _______________________________________________ svlug mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug -- _.-, raj shekhar .--' '-._ http://rajshekhar.net _/`- _ '. http://rajshekhar.net/blog '----'._`.----. \ ` \; WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE ;_\ -- God's Last Message to his Creation _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
