On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:33:44AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:19:21PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1) How to setup a firewall in ubuntu? It seems suitable iptables settings > > do > > work but that's awefully primitive. This article did not help > > http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259 (no lokkit or guarddog > > can be found by apt-get) > > I use shorewall [1], basically a perl wrapper on iptables. Easy to > config with a collection of files in /etc/shorewall, and very flexible - > from a single laptop to a large network. > > [1] http://www.shorewall.net >
If you want something simple, firehol is pretty good. Debian (and therefore probably Ubuntu) has a bunch of example config files that are really easy to use. The advantage to say shorewall (although things may have changed) is that with fussy protocols like SMB, you just enable it and it works, where as I found with shorewall that you needed to worry about traffic directions and such. It also lets you do NATting and stuff extremely simply. And that's my 5 cents. Byron -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
