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List: security-basics
Subject: Re: *nix firewall setup
From: Jason Dixon <jasondixon () myrealbox ! com>
Date: 2002-11-27 20:24:43
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On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 01:25, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 26/11/02 09:20 -0800, jh wrote:
> > Having never set one up before and only having a little knowledge of linux
> > where can I go to get a basic tutorial that just covers firewalls and linux.
> http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/howto/iptables-HOWTO.html
> http://www.google.com/search?q=iptables+howto
> Search on freshmeat.net for firewall building tools.
>
> Or if you want to try out OpenBSD, there is a pf HOWTO on deadly.org
>
> If you want to get really funky, look on samag for dead firewall. Thats
> a shutdown Linux box running as a firewall.
IIRC, this is using ipchains in runlevel 0. Interesting in concept, but
lacks stateful inspection. Unless the same can be done via iptables, I
recommend you stick with the earlier suggestion of OpenBSD/PF.
-J.
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