[CentOS] Firewall frustration
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Dec 31 17:27:47 UTC 2007
Robert Spangler wrote:
> 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.
This might be best for my current needs...
thanks
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