As usual of late, I have a correction:  not "firestart" but
"firedraw", they've got a page at sourceforge.

P.S. Thanks for the pointer to doit, Steven, I'll check that
out too.
Steve

Donald Martinez wrote:
> 
> Cool, I will check into those.
> Thanks :)
> 
> "Steven M. Klass" wrote:
> 
> > For writing IP Chains scripts I always have used
> > http://www.packetfilter.amotken.com/doit/  This builds your IPChains
> > firewall script for you.  It's slick and simple.
> >
> > At 06:24 PM 2/7/01 -0700, foodog@pop.phnx.uswest.net wrote:
> > >   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.