[gentoo-user] GUI tools for iptables?

[sain yan]

It`s dificulte to me for setup iptables!!!

 

Are there any GUI tools in profiles???

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I'm sorry for my poor english!!!!!!!

[Sergey A. Kobzar]

Hi sain,

Sunday, July 1, 2007, 1:05:14 PM, you wrote:

> It`s dificulte to me for setup iptables!!!
>
> Are there any GUI tools in profiles???

webmin

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[Paul Waring]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:05:14PM +0800, sain yan wrote:
> It`s dificulte to me for setup iptables!!!
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> Are there any GUI tools in profiles???

There are plenty of GUIs out there - just google for 'iptables GUI' and
you'll find dozens of tools to help you. However, using iptables at the
command line isn't too difficult if you're only doing simple things like
closing/opening ports on your machine.

Paul
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[Elias Probst]

There's a IMHO really good framework helping you to setup IPTables without
having to learn the IPTables syntax etc: net-firewall/shorewall

Regards, Elias P.

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[Mick]

It is probably simpler than what you think to understand iptables and setup a
simple rule set. Have a *slow* look at:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/linux-24-stateful-fw-design.xml

which is an excellent tutorial to take you through the steps of designing and
setting up your own firewall. There's also man iptables to compliment the
tutorial and explain the many options that exist within iptables.

If you are going to manage a production server or a machine with service ports
open to the wide web, which is expected to come under considerable attack,
you may also want to read this:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/dynamic-iptables-firewalls.xml

Alternatively, you can use one of the many automatic script generators and GUI
rule managers. If you are used to managing GUI firewalls like you find in MS
Windows, then Firewall Builder may suit your needs:

http://www.fwbuilder.org/archives/cat_about.html

However, the time you will spend to set up a gui and read its manual and then
configured it, would probably exceed what it takes to read the iptables
articles and set a manual firewall ruleset.

HTH.
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Mick

[sain yan]

Thanks Everyone!

[Daevid Vincent]

I second that. I've used shorewall for quite some time. I still don't
know dick about iptables, but it's pretty trivial for me to setup a
simple 'rule' or 'entry' in shorewall's 'rules' file.

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