red hats own firewall

gaz0r · 08-29-2002, 03:53 PM

im having problems with this..
its on high at the moment and its blocking everything I was wondering how can i make it able to accept certain ports?

or is their a better firewall i can use?

thanks

gaz

acid_kewpie · 08-29-2002, 03:56 PM

there is ONE firewall: iptables ( / ipchains ) What you think is a firewall is just an interface tool for iptables. personally i use firestarter, does a good enough job for me.

gaz0r · 08-29-2002, 03:58 PM

well i want it blocked from dos attacks as the other day it got attacked and took the whole connection now..

what ya think i should use ?

acid_kewpie · 08-29-2002, 07:13 PM

well you could always just learn to administer iptables yourself. see the howto at tldp.org

born4linux · 09-05-2002, 05:05 AM

yup. use firestarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net). It's GUI based and has the wizard - just click and click and click for you desired settings.

I think the one that RH system is using is lokkit (your using ipchains) - it's very limited to basic setup.

firestarter is shipped with RH (if you have the boxed sets - i think it is in the 3rd party Applications CD).