iptables

[Lovell Mcilwain]

Hello all,

Can anyone recommended a good iptables tutorial or a GUI that I can use 
to configure my iptables?

My linux box is getting slammed from hackers trying to get in and I 
would like to start doing some preventative measures.

Thanks

Lovell

[Robin Mordasiewicz]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> Hello all,
> Can anyone recommended a good iptables tutorial or a GUI that I can use to 
> configure my iptables?
> My linux box is getting slammed from hackers trying to get in and I would 
> like to start doing some preventative measures.

shorewall.net

install shorewall if you want to just get up and running very quickly.
Forget about the gui tools.

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 10:08 -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> Hello all,
> Can anyone recommended a good iptables tutorial or a GUI that I can use 
> to configure my iptables?

Start here:

http://www.netfilter.org

Go to documentation...  You'll find more HowTo's and Tutorials and
FAQ's than you're going to know what to do with.

The iptables tutorial by Oskar Andreasson comes highly recommended.
> My linux box is getting slammed from hackers trying to get in and I 
> would like to start doing some preventative measures.
> Thanks
> Lovell

Mike

[Claude Jones]

On Friday 30 September 2005 10:08 am, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone recommended a good iptables tutorial or a GUI that I can use
> to configure my iptables?
>
> My linux box is getting slammed from hackers trying to get in and I
> would like to start doing some preventative measures.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lovell

Firestarter is the simplest GUI and works well as long as you don't need to do 
complicated configuration.
Then, there is guarddog, shorewall, and fwbuilder that are frequently 
mentioned, here. My personal favorite is fwbuilder - it seems to be the most 
configurable, at least to me - others will probably chime in.

[David Cary Hart]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 10:08 -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone recommended a good iptables tutorial or a GUI that I can use 
> to configure my iptables?
>
> My linux box is getting slammed from hackers trying to get in and I 
> would like to start doing some preventative measures.

My choice is Webmin as the simplest and most intuitive GUI. I am not a
fan of either Shorewall or Firestarter but they might be worth looking
into.

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:08:48 -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone recommended a good iptables tutorial or a GUI that I can use 
> to configure my iptables?
>
> My linux box is getting slammed from hackers trying to get in and I 
> would like to start doing some preventative measures.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lovell

You'll be better off if you read a little about iptables and understand
what you're doing than with any gui.

Oskar Andreasson's iptables tutorial is very good.

http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html

Also, here's a gentle introduction to iptables to get you started:

http://www.cse.msu.edu/~minutsil/iptables.html