Looking through the scripts isn't going to give you much of an idea of weather your firewall is going to do what you want unless you're an absolute guru when it comes to networking and network security and ipchains/ iptables/ ipfwadm you really need to bash your box with nessus and nmap to find out if your exploitable. Even this may not technique may not discover all holes and exploits but it's a whole lot more reliable than reading through a script and trying to interpret what the script will do.
-- -----Original Message----- From: Simon Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2002 11:56 AM To: Slug List Subject: Re: [SLUG] Firewalls On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:35, Catie Flick wrote: > Personally I've only ever used Bastille Linux to 'harden' a box, and have > sat down with the 'Linux Firewalls' book by Ziegler (excellent excellent > reference) and taught myself ip[chains|tables] because I didn't really trust > the script generators myself :-) I'm using firestarter (Gnome) to set my iptables up for me. I guess I'm trusting that it does the right "thing" and a quick look through the generated scripts seems OK - mind you I'm no expert and not sure I have time to read the book you mention ;-) Searching for "A Better Way" to a home loan ?. Call RAMS on 13 7267, or go to http://www.rams.com.au The e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information. If you receive it in error you must not use or disclose the information. You must tell us and delete it. We do not waive any legal privilege by sending it. RAMS does not promise that the email is free from virus defect or error. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
