I installed them but still get zero stealth ports. The scripts seemed to install properly but how do I know they're working? Any other ideas?
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 10:15, Andrew Benton wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings: > > I've installed iptables and the rc.iptables script in the Personal > Firewall section of the blfs documentation. However, something is > wrong. > > My box failed the ShieldsUP! firewall test at grc.com. It shows 1,056 > ports closed and 0 stealth. I ran the same test with my Mandrake > partition using Shorewall and showed 4 ports closed and 1,052 stealth. > > I've attempted the firewall by alternately building connection-tracking > into the kernel and as modules. I'm using lfs 6.0 and the 2.6.10 kernel > and everything seems to be working quite well save for the firewall. > > Unfortunately, I have little knowledge of firewalls. Does anyone know > what I may have done wrong or have suggestions of what I might check? > Did you install the iptables bootscript? I can't see where it tells you to install the bootscript. If you didn't install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables bootscript, download a copy of the current blfs-bootscripts and make install-iptables
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