[plug] firewall on SuSE SLES9

[W.Kenworthy]

My current favourite ruleset is the monmotha one: its quite
comprehensive and theres a config section thats editable in a text
editor.  Basicly a bash script that reads its internal variables when
run.

The suse firewall is a bit of a dud - in order to make it usable for the
great unwashed, they dumbed it down too much and I found I was always
trying to do things it wasnt capable of - was 12months ago now so things
might have changed. (you can manually insert rules in the firewall
config files though)


You have already discovered why you shoulnt use the inbuilt iptables
save/restore: disable it!  Yoy may also want to set up a tripwire that
will email you when the firewall goes down if thats a real problem (ping
from an external machine or something that will show a change when its
down) - something I need to do in fact.

BillK


On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:34 +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> Dear PLUG list members,
> 
> Had a slight "oops" in regards to a SuSE SLES9-based server.   Did an 

> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au