[CentOS] Firewall frustration
Robert Spangler
mlists at zoominternet.net
Mon Dec 31 16:57:39 UTC 2007
On Mon December 31 2007 07:58, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Full discloser time. My day job is with ICSAlabs. My area is security
> protocols research (like setttin up the initial IPsec certification
> criteria), but when I visit the labs there are all those firewall
> products up and running.... So, yeah, I know checkpoint. I talk with the
> gang over in the labs about 'simple' firewalls, but there are only
> certain things the boss funds here. So then I have to go cheap.
While IPTABLES might be CHEAP (price) it is a very good firewall.
Learn to set it up from the command line, it isn't that hard.
Try the following to learn it;
http://iptables.rlworkman.net/chunkyhtml/index.html
Forget those GUI interfaces.
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Regards
Robert
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