Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

[Roy Wright]

gigli wrote:
> I wonder if there is any easy firewall for gentoo. I tried ubuntu for a
> while and used their ufw, which was very simple.
>
> My needs:
>
> Block incoming traffic except for sshd and https (and sometimes
> bittorrent) and allow my lan to connect to my samba share, mythtv and
> mysql when i use openvpn or allways, which would be easyist. My box is
> usually protected by pfsense.

I'll second the request.  What I'd really like is one similar to what's
on the mac where basically when an app attempts to connect to a port, a
popup asks if you want to allow it.

In the meantime I've been using shorewall which is way more complicated
than I like.