IP Tables

Am 29. May, 2002 schwätzte Carl Parrish so:

> Someone from the list once gave me a link to a great IP tables howto (I
> think it was craig). I'm not at my computer and I can't seem to find it
> at either the linux doc project or in the archives. Does anyone know of a
> good iptables howto? Also what config file do you have to update to tell
> RH to insmod ip_tables instead of ipchains?

Eric showed me FireStarter ( that he uses with Mandrake and I now use with
debian ). It's good enough for normal firewalling ( I had to do a lot of
fiddling to get it to work with multiple internal and external networks, but
I didn't have to change the core funcionality ).

It does depend on GTK+, so I installed it on a scratch box and then just
copied the rules ( in /etc/firestarter ) and the start/stop script over to
my firewall.

The GUI also allows you to monitor activity and ban IPs.

Once you have the basic rules, you can muddle through what they're doing
fairly easily.

ciao,

der.hans
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