On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:54 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
That would be a sensible solution, but how do you set that up?
Are you using some sort of GUI to control your firewall or are you
editing
the firewall file by hand?
If you are using a GUI then check out how you can allow ip
addresses.
I was using system-config-firewall, but it only offers 'Trusted Services' and 'Other Ports'.
If you are editing the firewall file by hand (how I do it) then just
add
the add something like the following:
-A INPUT -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -j
ACCEPT
Here is a great tutorial for IPTABLES
For relatively simple situations Firestarter may be worth a look as a GUI front end:
There is an EL4 binary version on the above site, but it builds OK from SRPM on CentOS-5:
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firestarter/firestarter-1....
Phil