Hi Costas Magkos I can recommend the webmin module called "Turtle Firewall", it is a very good tool for setting up IPTables.
http://www.turtlefirewall.com/ Kim >Hi all, >Can someone give me some best-practices for setting up iptables on a >Debian system? I'm looking for things like where should the rules be >placed, what startup script to use [1], good configuration tools [2] and >so on. URLs are appreciated, I dont mind reading :-) >I'm currently setting up iptables on a single-server enviroment (no >routing), but since I will be using iptables a lot, general concepts are >also welcome. >-- >[1] When looking around how to set up iptables, I found in >/etc/default/iptables some discouraging words (apparently from the >author) about the usage of the iptables init.d script, which can be >summarized to this: "Do not use it". Why not? And if not, is there any >other way? >[2] I tried firestarter, seems nice. However, it produces a large >ruleset with tones of redundant rules and /proc optimizations (for >instance, the anti-spoof filtering is activated by default). It involves >too much editing, which I have no problem doing it if someone tells me >it's worth it. >Thanks in advance, >~kmag >Costas Magkos >Internet Systematics Lab >Athens, Greece
