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Awesome, it looks like iptables and shorewall is the way for me to start |
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out. I'm sure after getting shorewall down I'll try manual iptable |
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configuration. Thanks! |
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As a side note, this is my first time using a news mailing list. Do I |
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reply to the person's actual email, or reply to |
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gentoo-security@l.g.o in responce to the emails I get from my |
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own posts? |
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On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:32, Matt Brown wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 09:27 am, Pooh Sun Tzu wrote: |
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> > Greetings, |
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> > I have been with gentoo for about 3 months now, but only recently |
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> > decided I needed a firewall. Don't ask, as I still feel simply not |
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> > having ports open is just as good as a firewall that blocks them. |
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> > Regardless, I would love your suggestions on firewalls avalaible for |
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> > Gentoo. Also, if you could provide a brief explaination instead of just |
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> > a name, that would make my day much easier. Thanks! |
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> emerge net-firewall/shorewall |
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> "Shorewall is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter" (iptables). The |
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> configuration files for shorewall are much easier to understand and edit than |
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> dealing with iptables rules directly. This is a really nice tool and I highly |
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> recommend it. |
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> http://www.shorewall.net |
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> Matt Brown |
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> LAMP Host |
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