[gentoo-user] Firewall choice question
Hi, 1 - I was thinking of using a firewall on cd (creating myself) with gentoo and iptables. If it is going to be used in a company (if properly configured) would the result be the same as a checkpoint firewall ? 2- How do i save the logfiles of that firewall config, on the internal HD? and read them true ssh ? TIA Patrick -- Insufficient facts always invite danger. -- Spock, Space Seed, stardate 3141.9 PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: Dit berichtdeel is digitaal ondertekend
Re: [gentoo-user] Firewall choice question
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:03:49AM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, 1 - I was thinking of using a firewall on cd (creating myself) with gentoo and iptables. If it is going to be used in a company (if properly configured) would the result be the same as a checkpoint firewall ? 2- How do i save the logfiles of that firewall config, on the internal HD? and read them true ssh ? To save the log files to the HD, I'm pretty sure all you'd need to do is create a filesystem on the hard drive, and set up /etc/fstab so it will be mounted at /var. - PK TIA Patrick -- Insufficient facts always invite danger. -- Spock, Space Seed, stardate 3141.9 PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firewall choice question
Pat Kerwan wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:03:49AM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, 1 - I was thinking of using a firewall on cd (creating myself) with gentoo and iptables. If it is going to be used in a company (if properly configured) would the result be the same as a checkpoint firewall ? Don't know to much about checkpoint but besides the advanced features like HA/clustering the result should be the same. If you don't insist in using gentoo you could also use gibraltar (http://www.gibraltar.at) which is a debian based firewall on cd. Generally for configuring the iptables rules I recommend using shorewall http://www.shorewall.net (there is an ebuild for it). Peter 2- How do i save the logfiles of that firewall config, on the internal HD? and read them true ssh ? To save the log files to the HD, I'm pretty sure all you'd need to do is create a filesystem on the hard drive, and set up /etc/fstab so it will be mounted at /var. - PK TIA Patrick -- Insufficient facts always invite danger. -- Spock, Space Seed, stardate 3141.9 PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firewall choice question
gentoo and iptables. If it is going to be used in a company (if properly configured) would the result be the same as a checkpoint firewall ? ?? No, it won't be the same as a CheckPoint setup. :) But, it really depends on what level of functionality you need. If you don't need SecureRemote, VPN stuff, SYNdefender and the AI features of CheckPoint, you should be just fine. :) 2- How do i save the logfiles of that firewall config, on the internal HD? and read them true ssh ? Log to a dedicated syslog server? That's a possibility. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
