Brett writes:
> I for one would not trust "Shields Up". Firstly I believe it is targeted
> at MS OS's and secondly I wouldn't even trust it for that as it only
> scans a few (well known) ports (IIRC).
It just runs Nmap. You can choose to have it scan all ports. Ignore his
silly nonsense about "s
Clyde Wilson wrote:
When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall
sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home
system...
I for one would not trust "Shields Up". Firstly I believe it is targeted
at MS OS's and secondly I wouldn't even trust it for that as it only
scans a few (
How about 'Firestarter' if using something Gui based is not a problem
for you. It's simple and efficient for a single machine and sort of
reminds me of early ZoneAlarm back in the Win98 days (but without the
yellow!).
Good enough for a home computer if you are not running a server or have
more comp
That looks easier, when I tried it was a few years ago and I had to use a
port something in the 10,000's range to talk to it. That was on redhat
too before I found out how to install debian.
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote:
Hmmm... Webmin is pretty easy to setup :-)
Should b
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since
> none of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for
> guardog? I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I
> do it alone.
I'm a bit surprized not to see someone ment
/usr/sbin/iptables(sorry - couldn´t resist ;-)but seriously ... wirte your own iptables script.This ensures you know what your firewall is doing and probably you will learn something that way, too.I tried about 10 different guis and prebuilt scripts before i started to write my own skript.
After th
Jude DaShiell writes:
> So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none
> of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for guardog?
> I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it
> alone.
I like Ipmasq. No GUI.
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Hmmm... Webmin is pretty easy to setup :-)
Should be as easy as:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# gunzip webmin-1.260.tar.gz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# tar xf webmin-1.260.tar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# cd webmin-1.260
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/webmin-1.260]# ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin
And you don't need any
I had tried setting up webmine in the past and couldn't get the setup
working completely. I think that may have been because I wasn't using a
java browser to talk to it then. Thanks much for these firewall
suggestions.
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote:
You can try Shorewall,
You can try Shorewall, that's console based and if you've setup webmin you
can also manage it using a webinterface.
If you are more in to colors you can have fwbuilder... It's a gui based
firewall configurator that compiles shellscripts that setup iptables.
Nice thing about fwbuilder is that you
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:00:11AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none
> of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for guardog?
> I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it alone.
>
ap
So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none
of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for guardog?
I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it alone.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Clyde Wilson wrote:
Thanks Chris, great tip! I'
Thanks for your time John. I'm away from my Linux system right now, but I'll try to gen up some messages when I get back to it...John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clyde Wilson writes:> When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks.What does it actually say? Shieldsup is a conve
Clyde Wilson writes:
> When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks.
What does it actually say? Shieldsup is a convenient way to run Nmap
remotely, but they make some silly recommendations.
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Thanks for the help Neil. You have given me some things to look into.Neil Dugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote:> When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall> sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home> system...> > If you are using a broadband connection then wh
Good advice Anthony. I'll check it out.Anthony Simonelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you sure that the results are yours and not your ISP's? Unless you have a dedicated IP address, you're probably getting your ISP's results. Also, check to see why it failed. Sometimes it is for a legitimate re
Clyde Wilson wrote:
When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall
sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home
system...
If you are using a broadband connection then what (most likely) got
tested is the firewall on the broadband modem/router.
If you are using a dialup connec
Are you sure that the results are yours and not your ISP's? Unless you have a
dedicated IP address, you're probably getting your ISP's results. Also,
check to see why it failed. Sometimes it is for a legitimate reason. At
work we have a mail server so port 25 is open and it fails us for it b
Thanks Anthony. I'll give guarddog a try!
--- Anthony Simonelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have a Desktop Environment like KDE, I would
> recommend Guarddog. If
> you have Gnome as a Desktop Environment, I recommend
> Firestater. If no D.E.
> then Shorewall.
>
> On Monday 27 Februa
Thanks David, I appreciate the tip.
--- David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 06:37 pm, Clyde Wilson
> wrote:
> > I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend
> an easy but fairly good firewall?
> > Thanks for your time!
>
> Do you mean a dedicated firewall?
Thanks Chris, great tip! I'll give it a try.
--- Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clyde Wilson wrote:
>
> > I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend
> an easy but fairly
> > good firewall?
> > Thanks for your time!
>
> If you are talking about a personal firewall for
> your P
When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall
sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home
system...
--- Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to Chris Lale,
> > Clyde Wilson wrote:
> >
> > >I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone
> recommend an easy but fairly
Thanks for the tip Darwin
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> http://www.shorewall.net/
>
> Clyde Wilson wrote:
> > I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend
> an easy but fairly
> > good firewall?
> > Thanks for your time!
>
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> Clyde Wilson wrote:
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> an easy but fairly
> > good firewall?
> > Thanks for your time!
>
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Thanks for the tip, John
--- John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clyde Wilson wrote:
> > I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend
> an easy but fairly
> > good firewall?
>
> darwin writes:
> > http://www.shorewall.net/
>
> Which he can install it with 'apt-get install
> shorewall
Thank you for your help!
--- Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> darwin wrote:
>
> > http://www.shorewall.net/
> >
> > Clyde Wilson wrote:
> >
> >> I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone
> recommend an easy but fairly
> >> good firewall?
> >> Thanks for your time!
> >
> For an enduser box, Fi
Clyde Wilson wrote:
> I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly
> good firewall?
darwin writes:
> http://www.shorewall.net/
Which he can install it with 'apt-get install shorewall'.
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darwin wrote:
http://www.shorewall.net/
Clyde Wilson wrote:
I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly
good firewall?
Thanks for your time!
For an enduser box, Firestarter is good, and simple to configure for a
new user.
Already packaged for Debian.
Regards.
http://www.shorewall.net/
Clyde Wilson wrote:
I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly
good firewall?
Thanks for your time!
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According to Chris Lale,
> Clyde Wilson wrote:
>
> >I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly
> >good firewall?
> >Thanks for your time!
>
> If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook at
...
If you are talking about hardware firewall, most
Clyde Wilson wrote:
I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly
good firewall?
Thanks for your time!
If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook at
Guarddog. It configures IPtables, so you only need to run it to
configure or reconfigure the
Thanks Hal, I did mean on a single computer!Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 27 February 2006 21:37, Clyde Wilson wrote:> I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly> good firewall? Thanks for your time!I guess you mean a firewall on the system itself, but
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