On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Manfred Wassmann wrote: > On 23 Oct 2001, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > is there a .deb for a stable and reasonable safe firewall that is easy > > to setup and maintain. I don't need to be able to controll all details, > > instead a simply gui/web-interface around it would be neat. > > > > Something like firestarter or smoothwall. > > You can try my simplefirewall package currently from > http://www.b.shuttle.de/ncc-1701/firewall/ > > It uses a debconf interface for most of its configuration and if you set > the debconf priority to critical you will only be asked to specify your > network interfaces and their IP addresses and to select the services you > want to allow from two lists, one for outbound and one for inbound > connections.
just a comment, that maybe does not belong in -firewall : All major distros have a simple firewall setup "upt-of-the-box". This means that once the installer is done, you also have some basic packet-filtering rules to prevent world-accessto your unwanted ports etc. Why should edbian be different? Can this simplefirewall (or any similar package) be a required package? Rational: The simple user does not need to understand all the internals of TCP/IP just to be able to set-up some basic firewalling rules. Furthermore, those basic rules better be setup before the user first connects to the internet, if possible. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
