[Techtalk] Good firewall configuration tool for debian

Devdas Bhagat devdas at dvb.homelinux.org
Thu Apr 8 19:35:29 EST 2004


On 08/04/04 23:18 +1000, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good iptables firewall configuration tool for debian 
> woody?
Firestarter is a good GUI application, even though the rules it
generates are, to say the least, hairy.

> 
> Writing iptable rules by hand has never really appealed to me a lot.  I just 
> want something that does the usual stuff like blocks packets that have been 
> obviously spoofed (local address via external interface etc) and only allows 
> incoming traffic on specific ports.
http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/ has a few scripts, which you
should find easy to modify.

Devdas Bhagat


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