Dear Gurus, When I do what I said and then I fire the following command: $ /sbin/SuSEfirewall start and it says: The firewall script needs to know the external (internet) interface! SuSEfirewall: clearing rules now ... done How to clear the firewall, I means when I use ipchains I fire the command: $ipchains -F $ipchains -X But what about SuSe is it $ /sbin/SuSEfirewall stop How can I know that when I use this firewall and my ports are not open to the outside world again? Thank you so much for your assistance. Regards, Choth jaakko tamminen wrote:
Hi
This seems to be okay for now.. Just make sure, that You have upgraded to latest version of ipchains, so all known security holes are blocked.
Also comment out all unneccessary services in /etc/inetd.conf out (like telnet etc..), and restart inetd daemon "kill -HUP <inetd-daemon pid number>"
Jaska.
I am using SuSe 7.1 and I would like to configure firewall for this server machine. I edit the file /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config like the following:
START_FW="yes" FW_DEV_INT="eth0" FW_DEV_EXT="eth1" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="25 80" FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP="22 25 53 80 110 3128" FW_SERVICES_INT_UDP="53" FW_SERVICE_DNS="yes" FW_STOP_KEEP_ROUTING_STATE="yes"
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