Firestarter alternative.

protex · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 88

No matter what options I changed when I would run firestarter it would either disable internet access for everything, or slow down internet access to a crawl.

Is there another newb friendly IPTABLES frontend that I can use? What are the risks of me not running a firewall on Linux?
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asiB4 · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:46 am Post subject:

Shorewall....read the following thread...very easy to set up and use. I started using it and have been very satisfied, after some modifications, of course. I would be guessing you may need to rework your policy and rules..could be wrong. Give the thread a read..and see if it work for you.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-308153-highlight-.html

Chad
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protex · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 88

asiB4 · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:20 am Post subject:

I'm not all that up to speed on networking, but I would say if you are not running a particular service the port will be closed. If you mean blocking a port, that will still send a response back to whomever may be scanning that particular port, but stealthing will make the port invisible to the outside world...almost make it non-existant. Yeah, I would bet the errors are possibly coming from your kernel options not being setup right for filtering and the like.

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asiB4 · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject:

well...did you figure out what the problem was? DId you get a decent firewall setup?

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