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Raj
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Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject:
Linux Firewall |
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Hi All,
How can i setup linux firewall box and what are the softwares except
IPTABELS can be used |
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Bit Twister
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Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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On 11 Jan 2005 23:24:11 -0800, Raj wrote:
| Quote: | Hi All,
How can i setup linux firewall box
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pick your distribution first, http://www.distrowatch.com
| Quote: | and what are the softwares except IPTABELS can be used
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iptables/netfiller is the firewall. The rest are frontends to make it
easier for you to setit up and check on it. |
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Raj
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Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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well dear i m usin fedora core linux so which frongtend will be good to
do it |
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henry
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Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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The Linux "firewall" is the Kernel Itself. Iptables is a command line
tool that installs firewall rules into the Linux kernel. So a "firewall"
on Linux will be a series of iptables commands that are usually called
from a script.
Do this:
% man iptables
Learn the syntax and then you'll see that your firewall will usually
just be a few dozen commands. If you insist on other "front-end" there
are tools that will generate those commands for you. I have never used
them, but I have heard people say good things about FireHOL
(http://firehol.sourceforge.net/). Here is another
http://gtk-iptables.sourceforge.net/. I have no idea how good these are.
Again, I recommend that you learn the syntax for yourself, because if
you don't understand what is going on and what you want to accomplish, I
expect you'll have problems with the "front-ends" as well. Take the time
to learn Iptables, the right way, it will be time well spent.
Raj wrote:
| Quote: | well dear i m usin fedora core linux so which frongtend will be good to
do it
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Renegade
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Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:24:11 -0800, Raj wrote:
| Quote: | Hi All,
How can i setup linux firewall box and what are the softwares except
IPTABELS can be used
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Have you looked at Freesco <www.freesco.org>? |
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Wolfgang Kueter
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Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:06 am Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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Raj wrote:
| Quote: | Hi All,
How can i setup linux firewall box and what are the softwares except
IPTABELS can be used
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IF you want only a packet filter you need nothing more to than iptables and
your preferred editor.
If you want to use application level gateway functionality for certain
protocols you need aplication level gateway software. That could be squid
for http, ftp and gopher and a good MTA (postfix, qmail ...) for smtp.
Besides that you could use a circuit level proxy, dante would be an
example.
And because your questions tells me that you have absolutely no clue what
I'm tlaking about I'd simply recommend that you get a good book first and
study that over some months. After understanding the book completely, come
back and ask agian. During the time of learning, just run you box. It
should be quite safe, as long as you don't start any servers.
Wolfgang |
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Fidelio
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Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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Get the free license of ASL... http://www.astaro.com
"Raj" <rajesh.kanchan@gmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:1105514651.956436.152130@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | Hi All,
How can i setup linux firewall box and what are the softwares except
IPTABELS can be used
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Jose Maria Lopez Hernande
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:42 am Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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Raj wrote:
| Quote: | Hi All,
How can i setup linux firewall box and what are the softwares except
IPTABELS can be used
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ALL the firewall for Linux are iptables based. No way.
If you are asking what firewall to use you can choose
from a lot of them: You can try our GPL bastion-firewall
software, you can use fwbuilder, firestarter, etc.
--
Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
jkerouac@bgsec.com
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
ESPAÑA
The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
-- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" |
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Arthur Hagen
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:09 am Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez <jkerouac@bgsec.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Raj wrote:
Hi All,
How can i setup linux firewall box and what are the softwares except
IPTABELS can be used
ALL the firewall for Linux are iptables based.
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This is only true if you disregard all the ipchains firewalls that run under
2.2 and 2.4. Older doesn't necessarily mean worse in the case of
firewalls -- you often want something that's well tested and not bleeding
edge.
Regards,
--
*Art |
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Raj
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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thanx for helping me out
Raj |
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Wolfgang Kueter
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:24 am Post subject:
Re: Linux Firewall |
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Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez wrote:
| Quote: | ALL the firewall for Linux are iptables based. No way.
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Wrong. dante - which is a circuit level proxy is not.
http://www.inet.no/dante/
Any ALG without routing functionality is not.
| Quote: | If you are asking what firewall to use you can choose
from a lot of them: You can try our GPL bastion-firewall
software, you can use fwbuilder, firestarter, etc.
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All of these are graphic frontends for iptables.
Wolfgang |
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