Re: My Firewall Burnt Me


Subject: Re: My Firewall Burnt Me
From: Erik Wheeler (erik@collectoronline.com)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 07:27:43 MDT


One script you may want to check out for building firewalls is Mason:

http://users.dhp.com/~whisper/mason/

I actually haven't used it yet, but I know the person who wrote it
(he's been working on it for years--very thorough), and I've heard
great things about it.

Erik

>Hello All,
>
> After reading the "IPchains HOWTO", a chapter on using ipchains
>in "Linux Unleashed 4th Ed.", the network mailing list archive, and
>the man page, I came up with the attatched little script that
>specifies my ipchain policies/rules. It's not an advanced script for
>sure, just something simple.
>
>Here's what happens:
>When I simply use the generic,
>
>ipchains -P input ACCEPT
>ipchains -P output ACCEPT
>ipchains -P forward DENY
>ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -j MASQ
>
>It works. But with my script, it doesn't. I guess I have a syntax
>error? Can anyone help?

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Erik Wheeler



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