Re: Firewall Utilities
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:59:43 -0500
Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net> wrote:
...
> I noticed that there are a number of iptable management utilities in the
> debian arsenal of cool stuff.
>
> First - I have no interest in installation of a GUI front end on my
> firewall. It's a headless box and I want to be able to maintain it as
> such. This removes some of the firewall utilities because they appear
> to be GUI tools.
>
> after this I think I am left with a few options:
>
> ferm
> shorewall
> arno-iptables-firewall
...
> My needs are relatively simple today with options going forward:
>
> basic home firewall without a DMZ (this I can do by hand).
> But I want options for expanding this into a VPN supported firewall with
> a DMZ, LAN, and respective port forwarding.
>
> Even with all of this, I still consider it relatively simple as all
> traffic is going in/out through the same IP/interfaces and I am not, as
> yet, using anything like socks authentication.
Shorewall. It can do anything, although I only use it for very basic
stuff. It is widely used, and it has excellent, comprehensive
documentation. I am not an expert, though.
Celejar
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