Just install firestarter - a GUI-based firewall configuration tool. That'll walk you through setting up a firewall that does whatever you need.
DR Richard Maxwell Underwood wrote: > I'm not a Linux newbie, but I haven't learned iptables or > netfilter, and it would be _so nice_ if I didn't have to study > detailed documentation to make the following change to my > machine. > > I know that many people don't want this mailing list flooded by > "newbie" questions about Linux, but please let me have one > reprive from this general rule or ethic against "newbie" > questions. > > The only network connections on my machine are lo and ppp0. > > I want to prohbit all systems except for localhost from > initiating a connection to my machine. > > I know that this breaks active ftp, but I think that's ok > because pacman uses passive-mode ftp. > > Could someone post an /etc/iptables/iptables.rules? _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
