On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 05:21, Mal Herring wrote: > > Frankly, fwbuilder or guarddog would be a very nice front-end > > for iptables/netfilter. AS you mentioned, you _don't_ really > > want to know that much, so these programs would actually do > > all the behind the scenes for you automatically. > > Thanks for the comments all - however I forgot to mention that the box > in question does not run X and I have no plans for it to given its > required role. > > So, could I use fwbuilder to compile a script and then transfer it to
definately, since fwbuilder is just a front end. YOu just need to save the iptables rules (iptables-save IIRC) Heck, for those kind of instances, might as well use something like shorewall. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:37:16 up 7:20, 7 users, load average: 1.76, 1.87, 1.65 -- [email protected] mailing list
