Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-20 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
It'd be nice to have firewall builder for (Open)Solaris, although it needs Qt. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
I really like syntax of pf(4). People were posting examples where they reduced around 300 lines of rules in IPfilter to about 60 lines including comments and new lines in pf(4). Eg. Antispoof is very easy with 'antispoof quick for { lo em0 }'. Manipulation with firewall on-line is easy with ht

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread John Brewer
I have been using solaris firewall for over a year now, up to now there has been know tool to configure any of this, I had to figure it out, but this saved me on buying a firewall, though the ipf.conf could use some hardening, any suggestions is great, I am running snv_b126, I had to enable the

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] GUI stuff? There was something about GUI? :-) [...] Yeah, just that most people today heavily use GUI and GUI apps and to hear someone going on about a DEC VT100 is odd in any case for the modern user! That was the assumption I was making anyhow. P.s. hey since you have a openb

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Too late. Hah :-D No. There is a base idea - use what's appropriate for your case and you. GUI stuff? There was something about GUI? :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Yes, it's good in some areas, but not everybody has so much money to have real Cisco at home :-) and just because a lot of people use something doesn't mean that it's a good product. Good security? securityfocus.com provide different view. Too much bugs in their IOS. But ok, a lot of people is

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Hey, don't forget that my use Cisco post was just a suggestion and not me trying to impose anything on anyone ;-) There are always going to be advantages and disadvantages to anything so it really boils down to what is right for the situation and which suites you best. Anyway enough GUI stuf

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Tomas Bodzar wrote: Huh Cisco? Why? I have OpenBSD. It's better and of course a much more cheaper :-) BTW I can't change isp's switch as it's locked downstairs for whole block of flats ;-) (ok, I can't chage it legally :-D) Cisco is good because anybody with an ADSL, Cable, Serial, VDSL, o

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Huh Cisco? Why? I have OpenBSD. It's better and of course a much more cheaper :-) BTW I can't change isp's switch as it's locked downstairs for whole block of flats ;-) (ok, I can't chage it legally :-D) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Tomas Bodzar wrote: Yes, just another protection of perimeter. Even at home with cable connection I can see a lot of attempts to break to my computers on log device for pf(4) either from remote countries like China, Bulgaria and similar or even from neighbours around me. And yes, there is a fi

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Yes, just another protection of perimeter. Even at home with cable connection I can see a lot of attempts to break to my computers on log device for pf(4) either from remote countries like China, Bulgaria and similar or even from neighbours around me. And yes, there is a firewall on cable router

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread Tony Nguyen
On 01/16/10 10:30 AM, Jaideep Das wrote: I have no server running on my system which requires access to internet. So it should be save to disable all outgoing data. But for bittorrent do i need to open some ports. If you have vpanels-firewall package installed, bring up the firewall panel an

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-19 Thread john kroll
I can barely understand an admin set at the routed line service. Cell to cell features (my association of Verizon) have to track and bill the live time with little regard to a content or bandwidth. Your addition firewall on the routed line is another filter block right ?? -- This message posted

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-18 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Yea, could belike this horrible c.r.a.p. from Verizon and many other unqualified vendors http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/perimeter/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=00541&cid=nl_DR_WEEKLY_2010-01-07_h That's why I use own firewall even on laptop or desktop. This is

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-18 Thread Jaideep Das
Following is the content of my /etc/ipf/ipf.conf: # route add inet6 fe80::21e:ecff:fe64:1330/10 localhost 0 block in log quick from any to any with ipopts block in log quick proto tcp from any to any with short pass out on bge0 all head 150 block out from 127.0.0.0/8 to any group 150 block out

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-16 Thread Jaideep Das
Following is the output of the command svcs -a | grep ipf: online 23:40:33 svc:/network/ipfilter:default I have no server running on my system which requires access to internet. So it should be save to disable all outgoing data. But for bittorrent do i need to open some ports. -- This

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-14 Thread David Powell
On 01/14/10 03:44, Jaideep Das wrote: i have install vpanel-firewall on my laptop. I want to know how to enable a basic firewall on my laptop. Or is there a firewall running already. OpenSolaris comes with ipfilter, though it isn't enabled unless you explicitly enable it. Since you have t

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-14 Thread Anon Y Mous
Jaideep, What is the output you get when you open up a command prompt terminal and type in this command: svcs -a | grep ipf ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-14 Thread john kroll
But if this basic home user is routed off a separate dsl modem input device at cat 5 direct or even a wireless home IP their could be another firewall right ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-hel

Re: [osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-14 Thread Tomas Bodzar
You have a lot of man pages on your system so start with 'man ipf'. You can find a lot of info in /usr/share/ipfilter/examples If you don't know if your firewall is running or not then you probably don't know about SMF so 'man smf' and at least 'man svcs'. And Internet is working at least here

[osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-14 Thread Jaideep Das
i have install vpanel-firewall on my laptop. I want to know how to enable a basic firewall on my laptop. Or is there a firewall running already. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.o