Michael Sherman wrote:
Hi all. Happy New Year. I use debian for some time already, however I've never configured a firewall. I tried to download torrent files, but for some reason I can't start it. I figured that if I used iptables to enable/open torrent ports, that could work. How would I construct a simple script that would enable me to browse the web and download torrents?
<heresy>/etc/init.d/iptables clear</heresy> My experience is that iptables is very very hairy.Start with a nice wrapper for iptables (I use FireHOL which is very good, there is also Shorewall which isn't too bad). It should allow you to easily configure a relatively secure firewall and open bittorrent ports.
Cheers, Jean-Michel.