Re: ipchains question

[James Lefkowitz <jlefkowitz@example.com>]

Thanks. I found seawall to be a good starting point for getting
a basic firewall up and running (don't feel like upgrading to 2.4
yet).

Jimmy

Jerome Limozin wrote:

> Use a script or program that set rules for you. There is a number of
> free scripts that setup a firewall more or less automatically according
> to your preferences.
>
> I personally used seawall (for 2.2) (http://seawall.sourceforge.net/),
> and now shorewall (http://shorewall.sourceforge.net/) for kernel 2.4
>
> Both of them are pretty simple to use. You have to set various config
> variables, then rules are automatically generated.
>
> Jerome
>
> Jimmy Lefkowitz a 馗rit :
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am new to ipchains (and firewalls in general).
> > I am running a 2.2 debian linux with an adsl
> > connection (pppoe).
> >
> > Once I set the default input chain behavior to DENY,
> > no matter what other rules I set, I cannot get named
> > to work. I have tried just accepting all tcp packets
> > from anywhere to anywhere on any port and I still
> > cannot get named to work. I can get ping to work
> > on ip addresses by accepting the appropriate icmp
> > packets.
> >
>
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