ufw and shorewall are great wrappers for iptables that abstract iptables's terminology into something better.
If you want a GUI to build the firewall config, check out FWBuilder. There are a few others that exist as well, but I cannot remember what they're called. If you're having trouble setting up CouchDB to listen on all interfaces (0.0.0.0), I would not suggest trying to create an operating system. --- Keith Gable A+, Network+, and Storage+ Certified Professional Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Mobile Application Developer / Web Developer On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Stefan Reich < stefan.reich.maker.of....@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > thanks for the answer. > > Now it's actually done... I looked up /etc/init.d/firewall and added a line > there according to other lines that already existed: > > iptables -A INPUT -i $device -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 5984 > -j ACCEPT > > This crap (sorry) REALLY should be more intuitive. I'm thinking: graphical > representation of ports and straight-forward editing. We'll do that in Lua > OS. :) > > Thanks again for the help, > Stefan >
