tuxta2 wrote:
Hi sluggers,
Im quite ashamed to say it, but for a couple of years now all my
firewalling and routing has been done using either webmin or
firestarter. I have no idea how to use iptables! I find I just dont
feel totally in control when using gui front end and have now decided to
learn how to use iptables. My question is, can anyone point me to
either a good online tutorial, or a book that will show me step by step
what to do and why?
I use debian stable for my server, and the tutorials that I have found
(I have never been good with google) usually give redhat examples
including config files that dont exist in debian (or are in a different
location).
Don't use iptables. Use shorewall. You will still understand
firewalling, but don't need to worry about the iptables syntax biting
you. also you get dual net connections in a nicely integrated script
dave
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