[CentOS] Firewall frustration

[Robert Moskowitz]

Toby Bluhm wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> qsm wrote:
>>> maybe shorewall can do your live so easy.....
>> It does not support the rtl8150 chipset.  That is what the I have in 
>> the way of USB ethernet dongles.
>>
>> Which is another reason to go with a Centos based solution when you 
>> need to put something up as you go.
>
> Which is how I have shorewall/shoreline working . . . .

OOPS...  I was thinking you were saying Smoothwall!!!!!

There I go again.

Yes, it IS Shorewall that I am using with the Webmin front end (though 
more and more now I am doing quick edits to add rules via VI).
>
>
> [tkb at nutube ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5 (Final)
>
> [tkb at nutube ~]$ rpm -qi shorewall
> Name        : shorewall                    Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 4.0.2                             Vendor: Invoca Systems
> Release     : 3                             Build Date: Mon Aug 20 
> 09:03:41 2007
> Install Date: Mon Aug 20 09:05:25 2007      Build Host: nutube
> Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: 
> shorewall-4.0.2-3.src.rpm
> Size        : 483558                           License: GPL
> Signature   : (none)
> Packager    : Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
> URL         : http://www.shorewall.net/
> Summary     : Shoreline Firewall is an iptables-based firewall for 
> Linux systems
> Description :
> The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a 
> Netfilter
> (iptables) based firewall that can be used on a dedicated firewall 
> system,
> a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux 
> system.
>
> Shorewall offers two alternative firewall compilers, shorewall-perl and
> shorewall-shell. The shorewall-perl compiler is suggested for new 
> installed
> systems and shorewall-shell is provided for backwards compability and 
> smooth
> legacy system upgrades because shorewall perl is not fully compatible 
> with
> all legacy configurations.
>
>