Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

[Andreas Niederl]

Hi,

gigli wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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.

net-firewall/firehol is a fairly light-weight iptables rule generator.

You just have to specify which services to allow and in some cases
protocol and portnumber for services unknown to firehol.


Regards,
Andi