Hello, I see manage of firewall in CentOS (called security), and seems difficult to manage, not enough powerful. I am searching a middle term between scripts of iptables to manage and Security manager of CentOS. I know FireStarter, another similar? -- Devel in Precio http://www.pas-world.com
> Hello, > I see manage of firewall in CentOS (called security), and > seems difficult to manage, not enough powerful. > > I am searching a middle term between scripts of iptables to > manage and Security manager of CentOS. I know FireStarter, > another similar? >Try shorewall www.shorewall.net Regards Denis www.just-hosting.net www.just-servers.co.uk
I use fwbuilder. There isn't centos specific rpms that I have found, I just rebuild from the src rpms. graham -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of devel Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Manage of firewall. Hello, I see manage of firewall in CentOS (called security), and seems difficult to manage, not enough powerful. I am searching a middle term between scripts of iptables to manage and Security manager of CentOS. I know FireStarter, another similar? -- Devel in Precio http://www.pas-world.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I used firestarter to get a base configuration, then I used webmin's built-in "Linux firewall" setup module. Of course, you'd have to install webmin first. ----- Original Message ---- From: John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:15:01 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Manage of firewall. Denis Croombs wrote:> > >>Hello, >> I see manage of firewall in CentOS (called security), and >>seems difficult to manage, not enough powerful. >> >>I am searching a middle term between scripts of iptables to >>manage and Security manager of CentOS. I know FireStarter, >>another similar? >> > > Try shorewall www.shorewall.netthat's what I use. The gui is called "gvim." SUSE used to use guarddog. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070213/308eaecb/attachment.html>
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 23:23 +0100, devel wrote:> Hello, > I see manage of firewall in CentOS (called security), and seems > difficult to manage, not enough powerful. > > I am searching a middle term between scripts of iptables to manage and > Security manager of CentOS. I know FireStarter, another similar? >The GUI available (security) is absolute crap :P I just edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables by hand personally ... although I have also deployed this script: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/#RC.FIREWALL-IPTABLES-STRONGER (You also edit that by hand for opening ports, etc.) Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070214/2fdf9705/attachment.sig>
> I am searching a middle term between scripts of iptables to manage and > Security manager of CentOS. I know FireStarter, another similar?You can use firehol, which is not graphical, but quite simpler than direct iptables, and very powerful: http://firehol.sourceforge.net/ Daniel
Johnny Hughes wrote:> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 23:23 +0100, devel wrote: >> Hello, >> I see manage of firewall in CentOS (called security), and seems >> difficult to manage, not enough powerful. >> >> I am searching a middle term between scripts of iptables to manage and >> Security manager of CentOS. I know FireStarter, another similar? >> > > The GUI available (security) is absolute crap :P > > I just edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables by hand personally ... although I > have also deployed this script:That's a bit like writing in an assembly language; okay for small tasks, but for bigger ones there are better ways to do it. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list