Re: iptables help

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

Michael Friedrichs <michael@friedrichs-northeim.de> writes:

> i'm a newbie in Debian but i have worked with linux (suse) 8 years ago.
> i give you a link to a very secure firewall.
>
> http://php-resource.de/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26918
>
> there is a stable fw script. you only must delete the whitespaces at the 
> end of every line, because the script is otherwise not working bzw. you 
> have no connect to the internet. then you must save it as ip-up.local 
> and make it executeable as root. thats it. the ports you need you must 
> open. with this script you have internet connection for the whole 
> network to the internet but all ports from the internet are closed.
> sorry for my bad english
> i hope that is it what you need
>
> i forgot toyou to tell in which folder you must save the new ip-up.local.
> you must save it to /etc/ppp/

This will work out extremely badly for Paul if he doesn't use some form
of PPP for his Internet connection.  Without knowing how his Internet
connection works...

Anyway, Paul, I would strongly recommend you consider one of the
existing firewall packages that are part of Debian and, as such, well
developed and supported.

Either 'firehol' or 'shorewall' are very good, and popular, choices.  
My preference is for firehol, but either script can work.

Regards,
        Daniel