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Firestarter to me was like using a ZoneAlarm type of windows firewall program. |
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It was very super easy to configure but not very flexible. I could not figure |
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out how to specify UDP vs TCP on rules. This seemed like a great program for |
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your average run of the mill home/desktop user. |
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For a GUI I settled on Kmyfirewall as it was extraordinarily easy to configure |
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and use once I learned the basics of how iptables worked. I also wrote a perl |
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script to automatically block IP addresses of hosts that do brute force SSH |
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attempts. The IP addresses are automatically unblocked after 1 day. Every |
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time a change is made it sends out an email. This has really helped to keep |
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my log files cleaner instead of seeing 500 failed login attempts in a 3 hour |
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span from one IP address, then multiply that by 1-5 IP addresses per day. |
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Note Kmyfirewall is very nice but is still considered beta and it shows but it |
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is not broken in any way that I can tell, just the interface has a couple of |
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small bugs AFAICT. |
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On Thursday 22 December 2005 05:17 am, Gavin Seddon wrote: |
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> It's alright for some. I eat lunch with a couple of dogs (canine). |
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> Gavin |
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> |
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> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:01 -0800, Steve Herber wrote: |
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> > I would recommend you use Shorewall for an easy way to configure and |
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> > manage you iptables based linux firewall. The documentation is |
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> > excellent. Plus, I like to have lunch with the author. |
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> > |
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> > shorewall.net |
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> > |
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> > Steve Herber herber@×××××.com work: 206-221-7262 |
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> > Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 |
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> > |
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> > On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Gavin Seddon wrote: |
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> > > Hi, |
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> > > I have merged iptables. Will they start at boot and is there a link |
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> > > for configuring on Gentoo? |
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> > > Thanks. |
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> > > -- |
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> > > Dr Gavin Seddon |
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> > > School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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> > > University of Manchester |
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> > > Oxford Road, Manchester |
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> > > M13 9PL, U.K. |
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> > > |
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> > > -- |
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> > > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Dr Gavin Seddon |
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> School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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> University of Manchester |
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> Oxford Road, Manchester |
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> M13 9PL, U.K. |
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