I'm surprised to notice that you didn't succeed in configuring Shorewall.
It's really a piece of cake. Maybe the problem is that the firewall
approach is a bit different and has several (more logical, if you ask me)
configuration files ...


>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuck Shirley) writes:

> Hello Cookers!
> 
> First, this is not a plea to have the Bastille packages re-
> integrated with cooker.  I'm sure that the Mangagement was very
> careful in their decision to drop Bastille in favour of Shorewall,
> and I won't whine about it, but for folks like me who are too
> busy with other things to become grandmasters of IPCHAINS, 
> Bastille was very nice.  (Besides, if I were a master of IPCHAINS,
> I wouldn't even need shorewall, would I?  I could just forge out
> all my own rules by hand and keep them in a text file to feed into
> the chain-locker at boot-time...)
> 
> After concussing myself for several weeks now trying to figure out
> how to make shorewall play nice, unsuccessfully, I found that the
> rpmfind.net repository still has the last released Mandrake-cooker
> versions of the Bastille packages (Bastille-1.3.0-3mdk.noarch.rpm
> and the UI modules (Bastille-Tk-module-1.3.0-3mdk.noarch.rpm and
> Bastille-Curses-module-1.3.0-3mdk.noarch.rpm)  Even better, they
> still work, so one can install them on a current cooker, and then
> run InteractiveBastille to configure their iptables or ipchains
> firewall, (and all the other stuff that it lets you do, if you are
> so inclined)
> 
> Furthermore, There are packages for the new Bastille-2.0 version,
> but they are not Mandrake specified, though the description page
> indicates that it will work on a Mandrake system.  I was too
> agitated by fighting with all the other network problems I was
> having after the last cooker updates I did (NAT was inoperative,
> and I couldn't even resolve names on the machine with the direct
> connection to the network!) to feel like testing a new version, 
> but it is there for those who are interested.  I still think it is
> unfortunate that Bastille has been dropped from the package 
> line-up.  It was very nice for those of us who want a safe 
> machine, but who are not TCP/IP ninjas, as seems to be required to
> configure shorewall.
> 
> With best regards,
> Chuck Shirley

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