[plug] IPTables/Firewall GUI settings

[Jason Bainbridge]

I'm using Guard Dog at the moment (well on my home box anyway) and I can highly recommend it, atleast for people that don't know much about that sort of thing, people like me. :) 

It handles the firewall and there is a companion product to go with it named Watch Dog to handle routing and all the fun networking stuff like that my marriage prevents me from expending money on at the moment (soon I will be free though but ironically it wasn't at my initiation, yet it will benefit me in letting me do all the fun stuff I've wanted to...)

Regards,
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark Nold" <markn at enspace.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:17:36 +0800
Subject: RE: [plug] IPTables/Firewall GUI settings

I think there is a KDE based one called Watchdog, or Guarddog that looked
good.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Phillips [mailto:T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:12 AM
To: PLUG Mail List
Subject: [plug] IPTables/Firewall GUI settings


Back in the 2.2 days, there was ipchains, and it was good. That is, I
actually understood ipchains, managed to wrap my brains around it, and nut
things out.

With iptables, and my loss of brains from dribbling out of my ears (blame
work stress, spam overload, too much Perl, whatever ^_^;;), I just can't
nut out iptables!

My home box/gateway is running Debian Woody, and is using pretty much the
default iptables stuff. Are there any tools to make maintaining a more
secure system easier, as far as firewall admin go?

For example, I have a friend who's less of a Linux Guru than me, and who's
gone the way of ADSL. He forked out for one of those funky DSL modems with
the 10/100 ports, the built-in NAT, etc... He does all his config of it
thru a web interface, as it has a built-in webserver for admin. And it
seems quite neat, versatile, etc...

Still, I'd like to stick to my Linux Boxen gateway, as I do other stuff
with it (MySQL DBs, etc). Hence me looking for nice tools...

Any suggestions?

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