Re: I can confirm that Fortigate firewalls are definitely based on Linux

2023-06-22 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 09:33:57PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 21:22, wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 09:17:17PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > > wrote: > > > Subject: I can confirm that Fortigate

Re: I can confirm that Fortigate firewalls are definitely based on Linux

2023-06-22 Thread Nils
On Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2023 15:33:57 CEST Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > I think Fortinet wouldn't say. They are required to ;-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: I can confirm that Fortigate firewalls are definitely based on Linux

2023-06-22 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 21:22, wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 09:17:17PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > wrote: > > Subject: I can confirm that Fortigate firewalls are definitely based on > > Linux > > > > Good day from Singapore, > > [...] &g

Re: I can confirm that Fortigate firewalls are definitely based on Linux

2023-06-22 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 09:17:17PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Subject: I can confirm that Fortigate firewalls are definitely based on Linux > > Good day from Singapore, [...] > Do you guys know which Linux distro Fortigate firewalls are based on? > I wou

I can confirm that Fortigate firewalls are definitely based on Linux

2023-06-22 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Subject: I can confirm that Fortigate firewalls are definitely based on Linux Good day from Singapore, These few days, I have discovered that the output of the Fortigate firewall CLI command "diag hardware sysinfo cpu" is exactly the same as the output of the command "cat /proc/cp

Re: firewalls

2020-08-05 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 7:22 AM deloptes wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > After install you have a powerful L3 firewall system available to > > you, but not configured to block anything. > > > > There are two command-line interfaces to it, iptables and > > nftables. nftables is the newer interface,

Re: firewalls

2020-08-05 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > After install you have a powerful L3 firewall system available to > you, but not configured to block anything. > > There are two command-line interfaces to it, iptables and > nftables. nftables is the newer interface, but iptables has more > documentation written. > > You

Re: firewalls

2020-08-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 07:11:12AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > riveravaldez wrote: > > > > If I can ask: which is the situation, in this aspect, in a plain > > plain/straightforward Debian (net)installation? Let's say: what's the > > by-default setting of the system? > > > After

Re: firewalls

2020-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
riveravaldez wrote: > > If I can ask: which is the situation, in this aspect, in a plain > plain/straightforward Debian (net)installation? Let's say: what's the > by-default setting of the system? After install you have a powerful L3 firewall system available to you, but not configured to

Re: firewalls

2020-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 04 aug 20, 22:56:21, riveravaldez wrote: > > If I can ask: which is the situation, in this aspect, in a plain > plain/straightforward Debian (net)installation? Let's say: what's the > by-default setting of the system? There is no firewall configured by default in Debian. The

Re: firewalls

2020-08-05 Thread mick crane
On 2020-08-05 00:51, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: I've never really understood firewalls. I think the idea is that they don't let anything in that wasn't requested but if you go on a website there are so many hundreds of scripts looking at this and that who knows what happens. I

Re: firewalls

2020-08-04 Thread riveravaldez
On 8/4/20, Dan Ritter wrote: > mick crane wrote: >> I've never really understood firewalls. I think the idea is that they >> don't >> let anything in that wasn't requested but if you go on a website there >> are >> so many hundreds of scripts looking at this a

Re: firewalls

2020-08-04 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > I've never really understood firewalls. I think the idea is that they don't > let anything in that wasn't requested but if you go on a website there are > so many hundreds of scripts looking at this and that who knows what happens. I notice you didn't ask a question,

Re: firewalls

2020-08-04 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > I've never really understood firewalls. I think the idea is that they > don't let anything in that wasn't requested but if you go on a website > there are so many hundreds of scripts looking at this and that who knows > what happens. this is a good point :

firewalls

2020-08-04 Thread mick crane
I've never really understood firewalls. I think the idea is that they don't let anything in that wasn't requested but if you go on a website there are so many hundreds of scripts looking at this and that who knows what happens. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Alberto, What you want to do is possible. In particular, skype and bittorrent do it. As I understand it, they make use of a server with a public IP address. I'm not going to get it exactly right, but the general idea is this: Two clients, A and B, both behind NAT firewalls. Server, S

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-22 Thread Celejar
idea is this: Two clients, A and B, both behind NAT firewalls. Server, S, with a public IP, i.e. *not* behind NAT. A calls S and says I want to talk to B. (This is possible because the call is originated inside A's NAT) At approximately the same time, B calls S and says I'm willing

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Celejar wrote: Yes: http://m19s28.dyndns.org/iblech/nat-traverse/#technique General discussion: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/How-Skype-Co-get-round-firewalls-747197.html Celejar Thanks! Interesting stuff... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Bob Proulx a écrit : You first mentioned connecting to a server so I guessed ssh. That was apparently not what you were asking about. Now you mention packages. I could guess that you want to set up an apt proxy of some sort. Is that what you are asking about? A way to set up an

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
for every specific case. And I usually do so. But i was looking for a generic way to use in a third party (openvpn server overaseas) to just handle the establishment of the connection somehow avoiding all firewalls. Some way for B to know I want to establish ssh conection with him and once

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make it a little more clear. Both computer A and B know about Server. Right now I use openvpn to bring all the computers together into the same network.

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread Lars Nooden
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make a direct connection between A and B with ssh, you need to have at least on of them be publicly available even if the other is blocked behind a

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread Bob Proulx
alberto fuentes wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make it a little more clear. Both computer A and B know about Server. Right now I use openvpn to bring all the computers together into the same network. But it seems too much overhead being both

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread green
Lars Nooden wrote at 2013-04-19 10:35 -0500: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make a direct connection between A and B with ssh, you need to have at least on of them be publicly

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread Bob Proulx
green wrote: Lars Nooden wrote: alberto fuentes wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make a direct connection between A and B with ssh, you need to have at least on of them be publicly available even if the other is blocked behind a firewall.

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread Lars Nooden
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, green wrote: Lars Nooden wrote at 2013-04-19 10:35 -0500: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make a direct connection between A and B with ssh, you need to have

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: alberto fuentes wrote: A (me) - Server (overseas) - B (arbitrary computer in my city) To make it a little more clear. Both computer A and B know about Server. Right now I use openvpn to bring all the computers together

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
the machine back up I will try it and report back ;) Both computer A and B know about Server. If both A and B can get to Server then it is very easy to just hop through Server to get to the other. The server is just a convenience since both machines are behind firewalls, but I would like to avoid

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:29 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I got the idea from filetea [0] I just checked it out. Its less magical than I thought. It *does* use the server to route all packets :(

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
That looks like you have to somehow be logged into both hosts and run nat-traverse on each. But it looks interesting. Firewalls can track and block UDP (create state) even if it is a stateless protocol too, so you may have to have control of the gateways too

connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-18 Thread alberto fuentes
Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server, but I just want to use the server to establish the connection Any ideas :)

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
alberto fuentes wrote: Subject: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server, but I just want to use the server to establish the connection

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-18 Thread alberto fuentes
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: alberto fuentes wrote: Subject: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
alberto fuentes wrote: That way all the packages would be forwarded via the server. The server is overseas. Im trying to connect to a computer in my city. Packages have to travel and comeback. I was hoping some kind of magic that would allow me to use the server overseas *just* to establish

Re: connect directly to another computer bypassing firewalls using a third server

2013-04-18 Thread green
alberto fuentes wrote at 2013-04-18 16:18 -0500: Its a long shot because i can really picture how could it work I know I can connect using the third server, but I just want to use the server to establish the connection Perhaps the nat-traverse package is of interest to you. signature.asc

Re: a question about firewalls (or whatever else that might cause packet drop)

2012-11-29 Thread Matej Kosik
On 11/29/2012 12:21 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, Matej Kosik a écrit : I am experiencing some deterministic packet drop: - when I tcpreplay on lo some pcap (0.pcap) file, that traffic does not reach listening applications - when I change source IP address from whatever it was to,

Re: a question about firewalls (or whatever else that might cause packet drop)

2012-11-29 Thread Matej Kosik
On 11/28/2012 12:04 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:54:04AM +, Matej Kosik wrote: Hi, I am experiencing some deterministic packet drop: - when I tcpreplay on lo some pcap (0.pcap) file, that traffic does not reach listening applications - when I change source IP

Re: a question about firewalls (or whatever else that might cause packet drop)

2012-11-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Matej Kosik a écrit : I am experiencing some deterministic packet drop: - when I tcpreplay on lo some pcap (0.pcap) file, that traffic does not reach listening applications I have discovered the following regularity: - if source IP address in given pcap is one of my IP addresses, then

a question about firewalls (or whatever else that might cause packet drop)

2012-11-28 Thread Matej Kosik
Hi, I am experiencing some deterministic packet drop: - when I tcpreplay on lo some pcap (0.pcap) file, that traffic does not reach listening applications - when I change source IP address from whatever it was to, e.g., 10.0.10.6, 10.0.10.7 etc, then when I try to replay the modified pcap

Re: a question about firewalls (or whatever else that might cause packet drop)

2012-11-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:54:04AM +, Matej Kosik wrote: Hi, I am experiencing some deterministic packet drop: - when I tcpreplay on lo some pcap (0.pcap) file, that traffic does not reach listening applications - when I change source IP address from whatever it was to, e.g.,

Re: a question about firewalls (or whatever else that might cause packet drop)

2012-11-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 nov 12, 11:54:04, Matej Kosik wrote: The only thing which could be causing thing I was aware of was iptables. However, when I apt-get removed it, nothing changed. iptables is just the tool to make changes to the kernel firewall. If you suspect troubles due to the firewall you are

Re: a question about firewalls (or whatever else that might cause packet drop)

2012-11-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Matej Kosik a écrit : I am experiencing some deterministic packet drop: - when I tcpreplay on lo some pcap (0.pcap) file, that traffic does not reach listening applications - when I change source IP address from whatever it was to, e.g., 10.0.10.6, 10.0.10.7 etc, Why these

Re: [OT] Firewalls

2009-09-21 Thread haldrik
...@gusl.org.ve escribió: Mensaje original De: Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto Para: Debian User Spanish [Debian User Spanish debian-user- span...@lists.debian.org] Enviado el: Viernes 18 Septiembre 2009 a las 5:50 PMh Asunto: [OT] Firewalls Aqui no tengo una opinion, pero

Re: [OT] Firewalls

2009-09-20 Thread Angel Claudio Alvarez
Para: Debian User Spanish [Debian User Spanish debian-user- span...@lists.debian.org] Enviado el: Viernes 18 Septiembre 2009 a las 5:50 PMh Asunto: [OT] Firewalls Aqui no tengo una opinion, pero si lo que yo hago, que es usar mi servidor de aplicaciones como firewall, pero leyendo

Re: [OT] Firewalls

2009-09-19 Thread haldrik
- span...@lists.debian.org] Enviado el: Viernes 18 Septiembre 2009 a las 5:50 PMh Asunto: [OT] Firewalls Aqui no tengo una opinion, pero si lo que yo hago, que es usar mi servidor de aplicaciones como firewall, pero leyendo veo que es mejor tener una maquina independiente como fw    Si tienes

[OT] Firewalls

2009-09-18 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
HOla gente Aqui otro tema para discutir sobre firewalls. ¿Es mejor tener un firewall instalado en un ordenador solo con el firewall o implementarlo en nuestro servidor de aplicaciones? Aqui no tengo una opinion, pero si lo que yo hago, que es usar mi servidor de aplicaciones como firewall, pero

Re: [OT] Firewalls

2009-09-18 Thread Juan Lavieri
Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto escribió: HOla gente Aqui otro tema para discutir sobre firewalls. ¿Es mejor tener un firewall instalado en un ordenador solo con el firewall o implementarlo en nuestro servidor de aplicaciones? Aqui no tengo una opinion, pero si lo que yo hago, que es usar mi

Re: [OT] Firewalls

2009-09-18 Thread Rafael A. Isturiz L.
Mensaje original De: Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto Para: Debian User Spanish [Debian User Spanish debian-user- span...@lists.debian.org] Enviado el: Viernes 18 Septiembre 2009 a las 5:50 PMh Asunto: [OT] Firewalls Aqui no tengo una opinion, pero si lo que yo hago, que es usar mi

Re: [OT] Firewalls

2009-09-18 Thread Juan Manuel Acuña
: [OT] Firewalls Aqui no tengo una opinion, pero si lo que yo hago, que es usar mi servidor de aplicaciones como firewall, pero leyendo veo que es mejor tener una maquina independiente como fw Si tienes $$ para tener otro hierro (igual un pc con bajos recursos te sirve perfectamente

Re: openvpn in spite of firewalls

2007-07-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:15:32AM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, I've installed openvpn on two systems and tried some configurations including Example 2 from the man page. For those without access to the man page: Uses an UDP tunnel with static key security. Seems that firewalls

Re(2): openvpn in spite of firewalls

2007-07-19 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
that your software will become a necessity in many environments. kj ... any holes in the firewalls for UDP? Not that I know of.  Is there an efficient reliable way to search for a UDP port? kj Since the firewalls allow SSH through, you can always run a PPP link over ssh... Will keep it in mind

Re: Re(2): openvpn in spite of firewalls

2007-07-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:16 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: The socket concept is sound. Yet where administrators insist on closing ports etc. indiscriminately, the concept is defeated. I'm afraid that your software will become a necessity in many environments. I don't know what sort of environment

Re: Re(2): openvpn in spite of firewalls

2007-07-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:16:42 -0700 PETER EASTHOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Not that I know of.  Is there an efficient reliable way to search for a UDP port? Nmap scans UDP ports with the -sU option. [snip] Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP)

openvpn in spite of firewalls

2007-07-18 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, I've installed openvpn on two systems and tried some configurations including Example 2 from the man page. Seems that firewalls block successfully (sarcasm).  Nevertheless, http, ssh, ftp and a few other protocols work. Is there any chance of using one of the open ports for the tunnel

Re: openvpn in spite of firewalls

2007-07-18 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:15 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, I've installed openvpn on two systems and tried some configurations including Example 2 from the man page. Seems that firewalls block successfully (sarcasm). Nevertheless, http, ssh, ftp and a few other protocols work. If you control

Re: openvpn in spite of firewalls

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:57:10AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:15 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, I've installed openvpn on two systems and tried some configurations including Example 2 from the man page. Seems that firewalls block successfully (sarcasm

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:38:32AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: What I would say is that there is never a precise one to one match between what is in a manual and what you need to do to use a piece of software. If you can't do it without the software you won't be able to with the

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: P. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: firewalls and installation stuff Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:12:58 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:37:19PM -0700, P. Johnson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct

firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I have now got Debian Sarge 3.1 r3 up and running on my 1200MHz AMD Duron machine with two hard drives of 20 and 40 GB and a 15 inch cheap Belinea monitor. I also have a broadband connection and the 15 CD set of official Sarge stuff. I installed the base system plus

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:21:40PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, [...] Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or do I need to install that separately? linux has a built in firewall in the kernel. commonly called Netfilter and

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly [...] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I hope that didn't come across as harsh as it now looks to me. A signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:21 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, [...] The broadband connection and my browser work fine. Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or do I need to install that separately? If so what firewall would you

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: firewalls and installation stuff Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:43:05 -0700 On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: And don't take this personally, but as a piece

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 04:26:41PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: firewalls and installation stuff Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:43:05 -0700 On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:21 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or do I need to install that separately? If so what firewall would you recommend and what aptitude command will fetch me it? How do I know that the

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly [...] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I hope that didn't come across as harsh as it now looks to me. It

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
trying to be an operating system. Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or do I need to install that separately? Not needed. People use Debian to create firewalls. Just don't install any software that you don't need and you'll be OK. aptitude visualizes

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or do I need to install that separately? If so what firewall would you recommend and what aptitude command will fetch me it? How do I know that the firewall is on and

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:37:19PM -0700, P. Johnson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly [...] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:37:19PM -0700, P. Johnson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly [...]

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-05 Thread Brett
Clyde Wilson wrote: When I run shieldsup at grc.com it says my firewall sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home system... I for one would not trust Shields Up. Firstly I believe it is targeted at MS OS's and secondly I wouldn't even trust it for that as it only scans a few

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-05 Thread John Hasler
Brett writes: I for one would not trust Shields Up. Firstly I believe it is targeted at MS OS's and secondly I wouldn't even trust it for that as it only scans a few (well known) ports (IIRC). It just runs Nmap. You can choose to have it scan all ports. Ignore his silly nonsense about

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-04 Thread B.Hoffmann
How about 'Firestarter' if using something Gui based is not a problem for you. It's simple and efficient for a single machine and sort of reminds me of early ZoneAlarm back in the Win98 days (but without the yellow!). Good enough for a home computer if you are not running a server or have more

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for guardog? I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it alone. On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Clyde Wilson wrote: Thanks Chris, great tip!

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:00:11AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for guardog? I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it alone. snip

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Bart van den Heuvel
You can try Shorewall, that's console based and if you've setup webmin you can also manage it using a webinterface. If you are more in to colors you can have fwbuilder... It's a gui based firewall configurator that compiles shellscripts that setup iptables. Nice thing about fwbuilder is that you

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
I had tried setting up webmine in the past and couldn't get the setup working completely. I think that may have been because I wasn't using a java browser to talk to it then. Thanks much for these firewall suggestions. On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote: You can try

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Bart van den Heuvel
Hmmm... Webmin is pretty easy to setup :-) Should be as easy as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# gunzip webmin-1.260.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# tar xf webmin-1.260.tar [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# cd webmin-1.260 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/webmin-1.260]# ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin And you don't need any

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread John Hasler
Jude DaShiell writes: So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for guardog? I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it alone. I like Ipmasq. No GUI. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread nullman
/usr/sbin/iptables(sorry - couldn´t resist ;-)but seriously ... wirte your own iptables script.This ensures you know what your firewall is doing and probably you will learn something that way, too.I tried about 10 different guis and prebuilt scripts before i started to write my own skript. After

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Rodney Richison
Jude DaShiell wrote: So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for guardog? I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it alone. I'm a bit surprized not to see someone mention

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
That looks easier, when I tried it was a few years ago and I had to use a port something in the 10,000's range to talk to it. That was on redhat too before I found out how to install debian. On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote: Hmmm... Webmin is pretty easy to setup :-) Should

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-01 Thread Clyde Wilson
s, but that's a different matter entirely- firewalls don't generally fix these issues. I guess you should post more about what you are trying to acheive.-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-01 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks for the help Neil. You have given me some things to look into.Neil Dugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home system... If you are using a broadband connection then what

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-01 Thread John Hasler
Clyde Wilson writes: When I run shieldsup at grc.com it says my firewall sucks. What does it actually say? Shieldsup is a convenient way to run Nmap remotely, but they make some silly recommendations. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-01 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks for your time John. I'm away from my Linux system right now, but I'll try to gen up some messages when I get back to it...John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson writes: When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks.What does it actually say? Shieldsup is a

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Chris Lale
Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook at Guarddog. It configures IPtables, so you only need to run it to configure or reconfigure

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Tony Godshall
into machines with stupid operating systems via stupid browsers accessing hostile websites or stupid operating systems with e-mail clients that auto-open hostile attachments, but that's a different matter entirely- firewalls don't generally fix these issues. I guess you should post more about what you

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread darwin
http://www.shorewall.net/ Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Katipo
darwin wrote: http://www.shorewall.net/ Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! For an enduser box, Firestarter is good, and simple to configure for a new user. Already packaged for Debian. Regards.

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread John Hasler
Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? darwin writes: http://www.shorewall.net/ Which he can install it with 'apt-get install shorewall'. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thank you for your help! --- Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: darwin wrote: http://www.shorewall.net/ Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! For an enduser box, Firestarter is good, and

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks for the tip, John --- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? darwin writes: http://www.shorewall.net/ Which he can install it with 'apt-get install shorewall'. -- John

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
--- darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.shorewall.net/ Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks for the tip Darwin --- darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.shorewall.net/ Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
systems with e-mail clients that auto-open hostile attachments, but that's a different matter entirely- firewalls don't generally fix these issues. I guess you should post more about what you are trying to acheive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Chris, great tip! I'll give it a try. --- Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks David, I appreciate the tip. --- David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 27 February 2006 06:37 pm, Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! Do you mean a dedicated firewall? IPcop has

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Anthony. I'll give guarddog a try! --- Anthony Simonelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have a Desktop Environment like KDE, I would recommend Guarddog. If you have Gnome as a Desktop Environment, I recommend Firestater. If no D.E. then Shorewall. On Monday 27 February 2006

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Anthony Simonelli
. These devices don't prevent spyware/viruses coming into machines with stupid operating systems via stupid browsers accessing hostile websites or stupid operating systems with e-mail clients that auto-open hostile attachments, but that's a different matter entirely- firewalls don't

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