I've used Mason on 2 boxes and it seemed to lock things down pretty well. My main gripe is that I ended up with huge unwieldy scripts after letting it do it's learning. I still "haven't found the time" to learn IPchains syntax (yes, I know that's lame). I've downloaded but haven't fscked with a GUI (web?) based tool called Firestarter, you might check on that. I also saw (yesterday?) that there's a beta of a GUI firewall tool from Mandrake, which I think is the paying home of Jay Beale, Bastille guy. I expect that's worth looking into. I'd search on linuxtoday.com for more candidates. BTW, if you're using portsentry you owe it to yourself to try out logcheck. Steve Donald Martinez wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience using mason when setting up a firewall? > I was wondering if anyone had any experience using it or had some > recommendations on some good utilities on setting up a good firewall. I > have snort, and portsentry and am looking for any other utilities that > would be good for protecting against my webserver. > > I understand that a poorly setup firewall is worse than not having one > at all and with that being said any input would be greatly appreciated > :) > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss