On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:20, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > 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 > Failing that, do the OP's logs show anything? I use my own iptables script and it's a quiet day if the firewall's logs don't show several attempts to connect in an hour. ShieldsUP made the log somewhat bigger (1056 stealth, which is amusing because port 80 is supposed to be forwarded to a dead machine, but I won't argue) and didn't like my responding to pings. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
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