[plug] firewall rules

[Brian Tombleson]

For gateway firewalls, pmfirewall is a pretty good (and easy) script that
will set it up for you after asking some questions..
http://www.pmfirewall.com/

HTH
- Brian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Breen" <locutus at borg.apana.org.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 8:03 AM
Subject: [plug] firewall rules


> Help!
>
> I'm in the (continuing) process of setting up a linux firewall box, and
I'm
> just fishing for some advice.
>
> The box is running Debian 2.2r3 (with updates), so it's running a 2.2
> kernel.  I've got the firewall more or less working, but I want to make it
> a bit more secure and stuff.  My main concern is that I need to have the
> firewalling start up when the box starts up.  I guess I can do this with a
> simple shell script in the /etc/init.d dir and then use that from rcx.d to
> start it up, right?
>
> The other question I have is that there must be better rules than I
> currently have?  Right now, the default is that everything is
> Accepted,  then stuff from my LAN is masqueraded.  That's a pretty big
> security hole, isn't it?
>
> Any suggestions, offers of help, etc...
>
> Cheers,
>
> JB
>
>