[Techtalk] Good firewall configuration tool for debian

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Friday 09 April 2004 00:05, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for that link.

Actually, I have just realised that I will need to do so QoS stuff at some 
point in the not-to-distant future - which I strongly suspect will require 
hand-edited iptables rules anyway.  Oh well, better do some reading.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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