On Wednesday 22 February 2006 02:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Interesting perspective: Not only did yast make the whole process easy and understandable but when I needed 3 interfaces (one for openVPN) that too was sensibly and understandably handled. Reinforces my resolution that yast is one of the best sys-admin tools around. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
