Hi good peoples... I have Mandrake 8.1 kernel 2.4.12-5mdk and IPTABLES
I have just manually edited /etc/bastille-firewall.cfg (the GUI is more confusing then editing this file manually I think.) Anyway, I closed the ports I wanted to close, I opened the ports I wanted to open, the only Things I want to do now, is setup port forwarding and get my Virtual IPs protected as well.. or I should say unprotect the ports I want to open as they are all closed by default by Bastille. I used IPMASQADM and pmfirewall for my firewall in mdk7.2 and I loved the simple format of pmfirewall.rules.local and pmfirewall.conf I created a variable for all my virtual IP's in pmfirewall.conf, then I created ipchains and ipmasqadm rules for protecting my virt IP's and port forwarding respectively,, one line per port so to speak.. (since pmfirewall denied everything by default, all I had to do was add a line for each port I wanted open on each IP. Now I have swapped to IPTABLES and 2.4 kernels for the first time, I am trying to achieve the same results i had with pmfirewall and IPMASQADM in 7.2 Can anyone make some suggestions as to a pmfirewall style of firewall for 2.4 and IPTABLES? (pmfirewall appears to have been abandoned, as IPTABLES support has been in ALPHA for over a year.) when I say style, I mean one rule per line which denotes one port of an IP address.... Any help, tips and suggestions would be most appreciated. I use linux predominantly for servers, (although I have a desktop box now), so I need to work out security aspects of 2.4 and 8.1 before I can roll it out onto my various servers. Kindest regards Frank Network Payment Solutions.
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