[plug] firewall on SuSE SLES9

[Steve Boak]

Hi Denis

I've been using 'shorewall' for a couple of years, and the configuration files 
have survived several upgrade cycles without major changes. All the config 
files are text-based, in /etc/shorewall/*. Install with apt-get and have a 
play. I can email you my rules file as an example if you want to try it.

Steve

On Tue, 9 May 2006 01:34 pm, Denis Brown wrote:
> Dear PLUG list members,
>
> Had a slight "oops" in regards to a SuSE SLES9-based server.   Did an
> upgrade and one of the patches applied was for firewall.   Testing revealed
> that after the patching my nice shiny ruleset was toast - server pretty
> much open to the World.   Ouch.
>
> No worries I thought... just iptables-restore < previous-saved-ruleset
>
> But the firewall upgrade must have been more extensive, or it cannot read
> previous format because now the ruleset is blank (when do iptables -L)
>
> Is there somewhere a fresh ruleset that I can just iptables-restore from
> and then start cutting my rules again?
>
> Supplementary question... what are people using to manage firewalls - pref.
> ncurses-based because I remotely admin this one and do not want to run a
> gui on it if at all possible.   Would be open to running Apache though so I
> suppose this opens the way for webmin and allies?
>
> TIA,
> Denis
>
>
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