Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Nicholas Hockey <tilt@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] firewall suggestions?
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:10:48
Message-Id: 1073437435.72595.7.camel@blackhole
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] firewall suggestions? by Pooh Sun Tzu
1 Most modern mail clients recognize and give you the option to "Reply to
2 List" but if yours doesn't just simply replying to the mailing list
3 works also (tho it doesn't set some mail headers and it confuses
4 threading on some clients)
5
6 On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:55, Pooh Sun Tzu wrote:
7
8 > Awesome, it looks like iptables and shorewall is the way for me to start
9 > out. I'm sure after getting shorewall down I'll try manual iptable
10 > configuration. Thanks!
11 >
12 > As a side note, this is my first time using a news mailing list. Do I
13 > reply to the person's actual email, or reply to
14 > gentoo-security@l.g.o in responce to the emails I get from my
15 > own posts?
16 >
17 > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:32, Matt Brown wrote:
18 > > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 09:27 am, Pooh Sun Tzu wrote:
19 > > > Greetings,
20 > > > I have been with gentoo for about 3 months now, but only recently
21 > > > decided I needed a firewall. Don't ask, as I still feel simply not
22 > > > having ports open is just as good as a firewall that blocks them.
23 > > > Regardless, I would love your suggestions on firewalls avalaible for
24 > > > Gentoo. Also, if you could provide a brief explaination instead of just
25 > > > a name, that would make my day much easier. Thanks!
26 > >
27 > > emerge net-firewall/shorewall
28 > >
29 > > "Shorewall is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter" (iptables). The
30 > > configuration files for shorewall are much easier to understand and edit than
31 > > dealing with iptables rules directly. This is a really nice tool and I highly
32 > > recommend it.
33 > >
34 > > http://www.shorewall.net
35 > >
36 > > --
37 > > Matt Brown
38 > > LAMP Host
39 > >
40 > >
41 > > --
42 > > gentoo-security@g.o mailing list
43 > >
44 >
45 >
46 > --
47 > gentoo-security@g.o mailing list

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