Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:16:41AM -0500, Jeff Bonner wrote: > I would like some input as to which script(s) the reader considers the > most secure vs ease of use. The one I'm leaning towards is Monmotha's > [http://monmotha.mplug.org/firewall/firewall/2.3/rc.firewall-2.3.8-pre4] > . > It seems t

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-07 Thread Loren Jordan
Jeff, I have found an incredibly simple system, that some day should be put into a debian package. it's call "agt" and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/agt/ It installs the configuration files in /boot/fw and they are very well commented as to the format required. Read them, the

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-07 Thread Niall Walsh
Jeff, may I recommend http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=482935&group_id=13391&atid=113391 It explains why agt is no longer in Debian. Niall Loren Jordan wrote: Jeff, I have found an incredibly simple system, that some day should be put into a debian package. it's call "ag

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-07 Thread Loren Jordan
This is a real bummer, I guess I will look at another of the simple packages. I'm running agt on quite a few machines I have built for friends on cable modems/dsl and at my last job... Loren BTW: I did find that seg-fault error and after that, simply made sure I had an extra blank line in all

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-07 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-02-07 13:42 -0500, Loren Jordan wrote: This is a real bummer, I guess I will look at another of the simple packages. I'm running agt on quite a few machines I have built for friends on cable modems/dsl and at my last job... Loren, You might want to take a look at Shorewall. http://www.s

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-07 Thread Friedemann Schorer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Loren :-) Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2002 19:42 sprach Loren Jordan: > I guess I will look at another of the simple > packages Maybe NARC is what you're looking for - it's slightly paranoid, but well documented -> http://www.knowplace.org/netfilter/narc.html

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeff Bonner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.07.0916 +0100]: > Since I offer no services (yet), the goal is to make this IP address > invisible to port scans and other grotesques from the internet, while > interfering as little as possible with a variety of protocols that the > internal mac

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gareth Bowker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.07.1017 +0100]: > If you're worried about missing stuff out, you could start with a firewall > that defaults everything to DROP and go from there... good point. any-any-any-DROP is what i call the base firewall. there is *no* argument for a fi

RE: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-08 Thread Jeff Bonner
On 8 Feb 2002 01:51 PM, martin f krafft wrote: >> I also experimented with FWBuilder [http://www.fwbuilder.org] >> which is available directly as a .deb package. While it looks >> very capable, I'd essentially have to design the firewall from >> scratch. Since I might miss something, I've ruled

RE: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-08 Thread Jeff Bonner
On 7 Feb 2002 04:17 AM, Gareth Bowker wrote: > You might also want to look at the 'ferm' package. [...] To save bandwidth, I'll just thank everyone via this one message who responded with suggestions on the list. I'm taking a look at all of these options (including writing it myself) and they h

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:45:15PM -0500, Jeff Bonner wrote: ... > Last but not least, it's difficult to gauge my success (or failure) > because I can't use a machine *outside* the firewall to run nmap against > this setup. Yes, I do have another system with Linux, but it's not > located right nex

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-09 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:51:43PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Gareth Bowker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.07.1017 +0100]: > > If you're worried about missing stuff out, you could start with a firewall > > that defaults everything to DROP and go from there... > > good point. any-any

Re: Searching for an appropriate iptables script

2002-02-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeff Bonner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.09.0445 +0100]: > Well, ideally I would understand everything about my firewall, yes. And > writing the script would certainly result in my knowing exactly what it > does. That having been said, I don't want to have the network in a > state of