Re: Recommended firewall package?
On 2 Nov 2004, Potato Chip wrote:
> Is there a recommended firewall package? There seem to be several
> available, but was curious if there was a debian recommended one.
>
> I currently have a hand-crafted script calling iptables directly.
> Logging is only provided by iptable's -j LOG parameter, which is less
> than ideal.
My recommendation is the 'firehol' package, found in testing/unstable,
and trivial to backport[1] to stable.
Having tried quite a lot of the other packages out there, this is the
one I found with the highest degree of flexibility, and makes it trivial
to express complex firewall rules.
Regards,
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] It is a pair of bash shell scripts.
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