Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-23 Thread Chris Davies
Someone wrote: > Being on the road a lot with my trusted lappy, I'd like to get > suggestions on the best solution for an iptables based firewall that > needs to be easily reconfigurable for wireless, ethernet cable, and ppp. > I should be able to apply rules on the fly using tools such as wireshar

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > I use firestarter as well on my etch laptop. One problem I have is that > I have to manually reconfigure firestarter to switch from cable (eth0) > to wireless (eth2). How did you solve this problem? > > If you just configure it once, say for eth0, it will simply ignore all > the traffic on et

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Klein Moebius
* Patter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-21 16:29:11 +]: > unless you run services on your laptop. > I do. Which moves me to monitor first, then allow services while taking appropriate precautions with custom rules in new environments... Regards, Klein. signature.asc Description: Digital si

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Patter
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:40:21 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > You could create a set of config files for each setup and write a script > that copies the correct set to /etc/shorewall then restarts shorewall. > Have the script start when an interface goes up. Though a decent connection-tracking 'al

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Klein Moebius
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-21 08:32:41 -0500]: > You could look at shorewall. It has a great set of docs in > shorewall-doc. Yes, it does. I use it at three systems on dedicated firewall boxes. Hadn't thought about using it in a laptop environment. > > Your laptop has thr

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:49:15PM +0700, Klein Moebius wrote: > Being on the road a lot with my trusted lappy, I'd like to get > suggestions on the best solution for an iptables based firewall that > needs to be easily reconfigurable for wireless, ethernet cable, and ppp. > I should be able to app

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I have a laptop that I use at home, on campus, and various other > places. The firewall solution I use is called firestarter. The > simplest way to get it up and running is sudo aptitude install > firestarter. It is a front-

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> Hi all, > > Being on the road a lot with my trusted lappy, I'd like to get > suggestions on the best solution for an iptables based firewall that > needs to be easily reconfigurable for wireless, ethernet cable, and ppp. > I should be able to apply rules on the fly using tools such as wireshark

Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-20 Thread Klein Moebius
Hi all, Being on the road a lot with my trusted lappy, I'd like to get suggestions on the best solution for an iptables based firewall that needs to be easily reconfigurable for wireless, ethernet cable, and ppp. I should be able to apply rules on the fly using tools such as wireshark to identify