Firewalling utilities

[Donald Martinez]

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.
> >
> >   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
> > > :)
> > >
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