Re: short iptables script to use with Debian

2003-12-17 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:38:06PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > I think he just means "Do not use this init.d script". Right. I removed it from later revisions of the package.

Re: short iptables script to use with Debian

2003-12-17 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Hello. How are you all? your responses were indeed very helpful. Thanks a lot! Regards, Alex --

Re: short iptables script to use with Debian

2003-12-17 Thread Patrick Lesslie
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 10:22, R.M. Evers wrote: > > hi alexander, > > > > what i always do whenever i install a new server, is pay a vist to > > http://morizot.net/firewall/gen/. there, i generate a firewall script, > > which i modify for my personal needs aftwerwards. the script has some

Re: short iptables script to use with Debian

2003-12-17 Thread Jon Hill
/etc/default/iptbales reads # Now for a short question and answer session: # # Q: You concocted this init.d setup, but you do not like it? # A: I was pretty much hounded into providing it. I do not like it. #Don't use it. Use /etc/network/interfaces, use /etc/network/*.d/ #scripts use /etc

Re: short iptables script to use with Debian

2003-12-17 Thread R.M. Evers
hi alexander, what i always do whenever i install a new server, is pay a vist to http://morizot.net/firewall/gen/. there, i generate a firewall script, which i modify for my personal needs aftwerwards. the script has some standard protection against common attacks. when satisfied, i run the script

Re: short iptables script to use with Debian

2003-12-17 Thread HdV
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Alexander Fitterling wrote: > I wonder if I could use a simple iptables script instead, I was > thinking about to protect interfaces such as ppp0, eth0 just blocking > dangerous ports, so. Could anyone give me an example on how to do > that? I know I have a kernel with necess

short iptables script to use with Debian

2003-12-17 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Everyone, finally I resigned to get fwbuilder to work. (Probably, I must upgrade every system libraries, which I haven't done, yet. My Upgrade still is in progress, so the system state at all is somewhere in between stable and testing) I wonder if I could use a simple iptables script instead, I w