Re: Laptop Firewalling

[Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>]

> Hi all,
> 
> Being on the road a lot with my trusted lappy, I'd like to get
> suggestions on the best solution for an iptables based firewall that
> needs to be easily reconfigurable for wireless, ethernet cable, and ppp.
> I should be able to apply rules on the fly using tools such as wireshark
> to identify mac address exclusions, etc, and hopefully would be ipv6
> capable. Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Klein

I have a laptop that I use at home, on campus, and various other places. The firewall solution I use is called firestarter. The simplest way to get it up and running is sudo aptitude install firestarter. It is a front-end to iptables and very simple to use and set up. I believe it will fit your needs. Check it out.

Good luck.