Re: Recommended Firewalls
Hmmm... Webmin is pretty easy to setup :-)
Should be as easy as:
[root@yourhost /tmp]# gunzip webmin-1.260.tar.gz
[root@yourhost /tmp]# tar xf webmin-1.260.tar
[root@yourhost /tmp]# cd webmin-1.260
[root@yourhost /tmp/webmin-1.260]# ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin
And you don't need any java!
I've tried using the apt packages for webmin but someone has made it so
that there is one base package for an almost empty webmin and you can
install modules seperately. It must have been some effort seperating all
the components...
But I'm affraid that it has not been very helpfull for me, a lot of
package fuss for nothing if you ask me, :-) So just go with the source if
you want to keep it simple. It's worth the effort! Webmin is very helpfull
for almost every linux user...
> I had tried setting up webmine in the past and couldn't get the setup
> working completely. I think that may have been because I wasn't using a
> java browser to talk to it then. Thanks much for these firewall
> suggestions.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote:
>
>> You can try Shorewall, that's console based and if you've setup webmin
>> you
>> can also manage it using a webinterface.
>>
>> If you are more in to colors you can have fwbuilder... It's a gui based
>> firewall configurator that compiles shellscripts that setup iptables.
>> Nice thing about fwbuilder is that you manage multiple fw's remotely,
>> even
>> from windows machines. Using ssh it copies over the script and applies
>> it
>> to a firewall. The interface is very checkpoint like.
>>
>> All these are iptables based... Check it out@
>>
>> http://www.shorewall.net
>> http://www.webmin.com (this has it's own iptables mangler also!)
>> http://www.fwbuilder.org
>>
>> If you need something that gives you most control on the console on the
>> actual firewall in case of an emergency i would go for shorewall as
>> everything is local. But i mainly use fwbuilder, if i get in trouble i
>> just iptables --flush or have a vanilla fw script (made with fwbuilder)
>> ready.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bart
>>
>>> So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since
>>> none
>>> of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for
>>> guardog?
>>> I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it
>>> alone.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Clyde Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Chris, great tip! I'll give it a try.
>>>>
>>>> --- Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Clyde Wilson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend
>>>>> an easy but fairly
>>>>>> good firewall?
>>>>>> Thanks for your time!
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are talking about a personal firewall for
>>>>> your PC, have alook at
>>>>> Guarddog. It configures IPtables, so you only need
>>>>> to run it to
>>>>> configure or reconfigure the firewall. Its a KDE
>>>>> program, but runs in
>>>>> Gnome with no problems. Its also easy. Have a look
>>>>> at
>>>>>
>>>> http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Setting_up_a_personal_firewall_on_Debian_using_Guarddog
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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