[CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm planning to use CentOS 6.x on a handful of LAN servers. So far I've been using Slackware64 14.0 and 14.1 for the job. I wonder what's the orthodox/recommended way of configuring and iptables firewall with CentOS. I understand there's the system-config-securitylevel-tui NCurses

Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 13/10/2014 11:11, Reindl Harald a écrit : just write a bash script which resets and configures iptables with the iptables command and at the end of the script call /sbin/service iptables save which writes the current rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables and so at boot the rules get loaded

Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Ron Loftin
On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 12:30 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Le 13/10/2014 11:11, Reindl Harald a écrit : just write a bash script which resets and configures iptables with the iptables command and at the end of the script call /sbin/service iptables save which writes the current rules to

Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 13/10/2014 13:36, Ron Loftin a écrit : Of course, if you are interested in something that will help you to organize your rules, there is always Shorewall ( Shoreline Firewall ) which I have used for years and found very effective and time-saving. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into

Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
Bare bones is fine, but you miss out on the tools which may make your life easier. As an example you can configure a DB (PostgreSQL, mySQL, whatever) using the command, but it is frequently more time-cost effective to use a tool. Things like SSH used to be optional at one time. Now it is in every