* On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:19:21PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) How to setup a firewall in ubuntu? It seems suitable iptables settings do > work but that's awefully primitive. This article did not help > http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259 (no lokkit or guarddog > can be found by apt-get)
I use shorewall [1], basically a perl wrapper on iptables. Easy to config with a collection of files in /etc/shorewall, and very flexible - from a single laptop to a large network. [1] http://www.shorewall.net -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . "Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse." (Daniel Dvorkin) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
