On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 18:41 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: >> Hello listmates, >> I know this may sound stupid... but I am trying to set up a >> firewall/filter/forwarder using CentOS 5.5 machine as a platform and I >> am succeeding but only partially. Fro example, I am literally trying >> to forward HTTP and HTTPS (TCP 80 and 443) from the public interface >> to a private IP and TCP 80 works like a charm whereas TCP 443 seems to >> be a no-go. >> To that effect: does anyone know of a comprehensive relevant manual? I >> mean, I must be doing something wrong here though I ain't sure what. > > There is nothing CentOS specific about iptables. Just check out > <http://www.netfilter.org/> > >> Any advice and suggestions much appreciated. > > Try the *excellent* fwbuilder application; then you can design your > iptables rules graphically and even install them. > <http://www.fwbuilder.org/> > > I know I'll never waste time building iptables rulesets by hand again. > -- > Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA > <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> > OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Adam, thanks! fwbuilder is indeed a great tool, I can tell. I didn't mean that iptables was in any way CentOS specific but I did think there could be usage conventions specific to CentOS. Boris.