Am Sonntag, 26. September 2004 18:38 schrieb melissad:
John,
Am reading through the extensive documentation, some 400 pages.
There are a lot of versions, with at least 2.9 being not yet stable.
What version are you running with 64 bit? I downloaded 2.8 rpm, but there is a patch and no instructions on what to do with it? If you have done this one, did you patch, and if so how?
melissa
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www.shorewall.net Makes Iptables easy, and much more flexible than the SuSE firewall.
The discussion about ShoreWall and SuSEfirewall2 needs to hear about FIAIF, I think. FIAIF Is An Intelligent Firewall (what the 5 letters mean). After I was through the SuSEfirewall2 docs I headed to ShoreWall and found it too big. Freashmeat mentioned http://www.fiaif.net , which is a script configered by a handfull of configuration files, easy to fill, easy to understand. The different networks are described in "zones" (not new, I know). The meta-language for the rules, the fiaif script generates the iptables from, is easy to understand and even after weeks easy to maintain ... I run it on a router based on SuSE9.0 with 3 nics, applied a simple header (SuSE-style) for the /etc/init.d/fiaif script, made a link in /sbin to rcfiaif. Complete SuSE feeling (start stop status restart ... YaST-Runlevel-Editor...). You should give it a try, the .pdf doc is 32 pages, the .html faq config etc is small. But it will not configure your nics. Fun and success Christoph --
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