[Techtalk] firewalls

[Elena Lean]

Dear WeeBit,

my short recommendations would be to run 'chkconfig' for turning off 
those non-required but still acquired during installation services. As 
for firewalling, can't think of a better solution than iptables 
(http://www.netfilter.org/). You can be short and sweet with iptables 
rules, or you can go into truelly perverse packet inspection on them. 
The choice is yours as usual in Linux.

Happy securing



WeeBit wrote:
> Good evening everyone.  I am new.  Several things I need to do before I plunge online with my Linux box.  I am running Mandrake 9.1  I installed everything.  So now I need to turn off the stuff I don't need.  It seems I have plenty running in the background.  Including some servers.   I also need a fire wall, or instructions on how to set the firewall that is already on here.  I have a bunch of ports open that need to be closed.  I failed terrible  at the port scan.  I would like a firewall that stealth's instead of just blocks, or closes them.   
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