RE: Securing Fedora?

[Vanco, Don]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I'm not sure if you know about it...but a good firewall, one that I
> use on my Fedora web, e-mail, etc. server is Firestarter.
>
> http://firestarter.sourceforge.net

Haven't had a chance to look it over yet - but does it offer any
hooks into the Fedora iptables "services commands" (saving rules, etc)?

Don

Securing Fedora?

[Jack Bowling]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:18:11PM -0500, Vanco, Don wrote:
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > I'm not sure if you know about it...but a good firewall, one that I
> > use on my Fedora web, e-mail, etc. server is Firestarter.
> >
> > http://firestarter.sourceforge.net
>
> Haven't had a chance to look it over yet - but does it offer any
> hooks into the Fedora iptables "services commands" (saving rules, etc)?

Firestarter works independently of Fedora's own firewall system but it
fully utilizes the netfilter/iptables framework. If you use Firestarter,
you should turn off the Fedora iptables service to allow FS to run
things on its own.

Securing Fedora?

[Kevin Francis]

i find firestarter ... a little flaky under heavy traffic.

just 10 people probing me ( i wanted to test the firewall ), and the 
frontend crashed and burned, and wouldn't load after that.

other than that ... it works great

--
Kevin Francis
http://denial.loose-screws.com/

Jack Bowling wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:18:11PM -0500, Vanco, Don wrote:
> > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if you know about it...but a good firewall, one that I
> > > use on my Fedora web, e-mail, etc. server is Firestarter.
> > >
> > > http://firestarter.sourceforge.net
> >
> > Haven't had a chance to look it over yet - but does it offer any
> > hooks into the Fedora iptables "services commands" (saving rules, etc)?
>
> Firestarter works independently of Fedora's own firewall system but it
> fully utilizes the netfilter/iptables framework. If you use Firestarter,
> you should turn off the Fedora iptables service to allow FS to run
> things on its own.