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Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)



On Du, 12 oct 14, 17:18:10, Joe wrote:
> 
> You basically have two options, to use a firewall tool, or to hack a
> script yourself. The existing tools, last time I looked, aren't really
> that versatile, they are intended to make simple firewalls using a GUI.
> That's reasonable, because once you want something a bit unusual, any
> tool is likely to be no easier to use than the iptables commands
> themselves. I've (long ago) driven the 'sophisticated' Windows ISA
> firewall, and honestly, I'd rather have produced a list of iptables
> rules, when at least I'd have known for sure what was going on, and in
> what order.

shorewall

Kind regards,
Andrei
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