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On 00:24 Sun 05 Apr, gigli wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> I wonder if there is any easy firewall for gentoo. I tried ubuntu for a |
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> while and used their ufw, which was very simple. |
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> My needs: |
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> Block incoming traffic except for sshd and https (and sometimes |
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> bittorrent) and allow my lan to connect to my samba share, mythtv and |
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> mysql when i use openvpn or allways, which would be easyist. My box is |
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> usually protected by pfsense. |
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> I have a hard time to understand iptables and i have tried guarddog and |
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> kmyfirewall and others, didn't really like them. Something like ufw |
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> would be nice. |
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> Cheers |
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> Martin |
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Something I did was setup a virtual machine and did all my trial and |
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error there. It keeps you from messing up your machine, and you can test |
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everything out at your lesure. |
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As for software, you could look into Shorewall and see if that works for you. |
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I'm not anti-social, I'm just not user friendly |
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