[CentOS] Firewall frustration
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Jan 6 00:33:29 UTC 2008
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.
>
>
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