Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, FireHOL is well documented, it is written in bash, it is intuitive to configure and to maintain, and it comes with options that produce a template for your current box, that allow to check your configuration, and to read the effective iptable. Furthermore, it is maintained, The cons:

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:59:50PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:00, Michael Pobega wrote: Do you know of any reliable way to make sure my firewall is working? I'm behind a router so I don't think any of those TCP scanning sites would w

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:59:50PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:00, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > Do you know of any reliable way to make sure my firewall is working? > > I'm behind a router so I don't think any of those TCP scanning sites > > would work. >

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:00, Michael Pobega wrote: > do you know of any reliable way to make > sure my firewall is working? I'm behind a router so I don't think any of > those TCP scanning sites would work. nmap from various locations is my general testing proceedure. There might be more ag

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Jerome BENOIT wrote: firehole is great too ! Can you elaborate a little bit on pro/cons? Right now I'm trying to get through shorewall docs and it's "OK" but they could use a better initiation/orientation starting point. I'm only now grasping the different roles that zone/policy/rule play.

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 08:52 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 00:10 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > firehole is great too ! > > Anyone work with firestarter? Sorry about the post... I did not see the originals and had this question in mind at the moment. Now I see I probably

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 00:10 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > firehole is great too ! Anyone work with firestarter? Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization al

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:56:48PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:59:43PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > For about ten years I've been writing my own firewall directives and > > today I started setting up a new firewall box. For the past year I've > > been using ipcop

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
firehole is great too ! Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:59:43PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: For about ten years I've been writing my own firewall directives and today I started setting up a new firewall box. For the past year I've been using ipcop, but they have some characte

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:59:43PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > For about ten years I've been writing my own firewall directives and > today I started setting up a new firewall box. For the past year I've > been using ipcop, but they have some characteristics that I didn't care for. > after thi

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-15 Thread Celejar
It's a headless box and I want to be able to maintain it as > such. This removes some of the firewall utilities because they appear > to be GUI tools. > > after this I think I am left with a few options: > > ferm > shorewall > arno-iptables-firewall ... > My

Firewall Utilities

2008-11-15 Thread Tom Allison
tilities in the debian arsenal of cool stuff. First - I have no interest in installation of a GUI front end on my firewall. It's a headless box and I want to be able to maintain it as such. This removes some of the firewall utilities because they appear to be GUI tools. after this I think