[CentOS] Firewall builder - which rpm?

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Dec 30 06:09:00 UTC 2007



Grant McChesney wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2007 10:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com 
> <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>> wrote:
>
>     I need a decent, easy, firewall on Centos.  This is for test
>     systems, so
>     I do not need a lot.  For 'a lot', I use and Astaro firewall.
>
>     I had used Firestarter once, but found out that it cannot handle
>     routing
>     between a public and private network.  Basically saying this is
>     impossible.  Of course, if your private network is addressed per RFC
>     1918 (that I co-authored), I can understand the difficulty, but
>     otherwise....
>
>     Anyway, I found firehol, but this is rather confusing.  ( how do I
>     define a service like for port 5903?  What about UDP for RTP? How do I
>     run the thing?)
>
>     There have been people here mentioning Firewall Builder, and that
>     seems
>     be well documented, except which rpm I should grab for Centos 5.
>
>     I am looking over at http://www.fwbuilder.org/ and
>     http://www.fwbuilder.org/nightly_builds/build-329/ for rpms, but which
>     one? fedora-c5 ?
>
>     thanks.
>
>
>
> Firewall builder is available in the ATrpms repository for C5:
> http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/fwbuilder/

Thanks.  The version there is 6 months behind, but it looks mostly like 
bug fixes and for what I need this week, it should do the job.





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