fwbuilder and Debian

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Author: KevinO
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Subject: fwbuilder and Debian
wrote:
> I have installed fwbuidler.
>
> After installation.
>
> During the creation of the firewall the tool asks if snmp is enabled I have

never enabled that so then it wants to do some more things manually like the
interface label I believe it is eth0 although when I run the script that it
creates I get the following
>
> ./inside.fw
> Interface eth0 does not exist
>
>
> Jim

Stay away from running snmp on a firewall.

Since you are not running snmp, these auto-discovery methods will not work.

There was a good article in the May and June issues of Linux Journal where the
author talks about (not) running snmp on a firewall in a sidebar.


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KevinO

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