Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Firewall howto?

[William Kenworthy]

Or use monmotha and be up an running in a couple of minutes.  I am using
3 nics at the moment with it.  I did try shorewall, but the setup time
and learning curve was so much greater I dumped it (the complexity
worried me as well - complex means it may be vulnerable to
misconfiguration).  Mind you, on complex/commercial setups it probably
has an advantage, but not for SOHO/home use.

BillK


On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 12:23 +0200, Oscar wrote:
> I've used both firehol and shorewall, and they're both great!
> But for a more advanced setup, I would recommend shorewall (firehol is a bit tricky at some points, like port-forwarding), it will save you a lot of time (setting up a 3 NIC firewall with shorewall takes less than 30 minutes)...
>
> Oscar
>
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:36:39 +0000 (UTC)
> James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've decided to take the plunge and build my first, full featured
> > firewall on Gentoo. At first I was going to use 'gnap' but further
> > reading reveals that this sort of derived firewall is stateless,
> > and I want a statefull firewall. It's also masked.
> > (feel free to correct me if I miss something).
> >
> > The firewall will have (3) nics, Outside(static IP)
> > DMZ for several  web servers, mail server and DNS secondaries
> > and a private for a DNS server, PCs(doz) and assorted Linux systems.
> > So after googling for a while, I could not find any detailed documentation
> > on building a gentoo based robust firewall (I sure thought I'd ran across
> > such a page/document, but, nothing today).
> >
> > I did find some packages to 'ease the pain' on configuring iptables
> > and completing the firewall: Recommendations here?
> > fwbuilder
> > bastille
> > kmyfirewall
> > firestarter
> >
> > I did find this gentoo document:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml
> > This example is for a 2 nic basic firewall.
> > I need a dmz that will have web servers, dns servers, and
> > will ensure security.
> >
> > I did find one Debian-centric security document:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto
> >
> > Alternatively, since this machine is only going to be a firewall
> > & ethernet router so rather than securing a complete Gentoo system
> > I could just use a 'firewall cd' installation, if one exists
> > as a Gentoo derivative.
> >
> > Any other ideas or recommendations on documents or firewall install
> > config  on gentoo or a gentoo derivative are most welcome?
> >
> > Note: my firewall experience is mostly with openbsd.
> >
> >
> > James
> >
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> >
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