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Re: Recommended Firewalls

That looks easier, when I tried it was a few years ago and I had to use a port something in the 10,000's range to talk to it. That was on redhat too before I found out how to install debian. 



On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote:


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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