Thanks for your advice.
Daniel wrote:
As far as I know there is no fixed documentation for Gentoo. iptables is a set
of programs that can be used by a user with a lot of familarity however
helper programs are good.
Noted.
>Is its setup/configure procedure similar to other distro
Yes. If you want some helper programs I've found guarddog to be very good.
Although if you have a bit more complicated network try shorewall (text based
setup). I've heard some good reviews for fwbuilder too.
I heard 'guarddong' and 'shorewall' but no knowledge of 'fwbuilder' I was testing 'shorewall' on other PCs including broadband sharing - Two-interface and now temporarily stopped while I am testing Gentoo with full force.
Note there is a /etc/init.d/iptables script that does save and restore
operations on your firewall. Just add it to the default runlevel ("rc-update
add iptables default")
# rc-update add iptables default * iptables added to runlevel default * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] * rc-update complete.
# /etc/init.d/iptables start * Bringing eth0 up... * Failed to bring eth0 up [ !! ]
* ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "iptables" was not started.
I have some minor problem on this PC in re of NICs. There are 2 NICs installed and I use eth1 connecting to broadband and eth0 not used yet. Which file I have to edit to bring eth1 up instead of eth0.
Note for guarddog /etc/rc.firewall should be run on startup or any interface
ip change e.g dialup. I've just added mine to /etc/ppp/ip-up and configurd
/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 to not overwrite /etc/ppp/ip-up.
B.R. Stephen
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