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