3.1 Sarge and firewalls

[martinfromdublin]

Hi all,

Does 3.1 Sarge have a firewall built in? I saw no notification about firewalls when I installed the O.S. If I need to add one, how do I go about it? I'm afraid I'll need to be 'spoon fed' as this is my first venture in Debian Sarge (see my last posting).

Martin,

Dublin, Ireland

[bryansmith]

I don't know if Sarge comes with one but you can easily add one through apt. See these search results for firewall for stable: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/s...le&release=all.

Bryan

[Vergil83]

that is correct, no firewall. I have found the easiest programs are guarddog or firestarter

[martinfromdublin]

Hi Guys,

Okay, I've downlaod the package (Shorewall) to my home folder. It appears to be a tar.gz file, so I clicked 'extract', what do I do next?

Martin

[Vergil83]

just use apt-get

Shorewall Debian package

[martinfromdublin]

Hi again,

Okay, so far so good, here's what I now have

Setting up iproute (20041019-3) ...
Setting up shorewall (2.2.3-1) ...
#### WARNING ####
the firewall won't be started/stopped unless it is configured

please configure it and then edit /etc/default/shorewall
and set the "startup" variable to 1 in order to allow
shorewall to start
#################

Can you tell me how I access the firewall settings so I can configure it?

Thanks,

Martin

[junkman4547]

Debian Sarge has a firewall program calls ...."Guard Dog". Just use

#apt-get install guarddog

You will need to configure it after installation though, go to their web site and follow the instructions.

I myself use guarddog.

[junkman4547]

Oops.... I didn't see that Vergil has already mentioned guarddog......a thousand lashes with a wet noodle....

[Vergil83]

Can you tell me how I access the firewall settings so I can configure it?

http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm

[chopin1810]

Linux doesn't really need a firewall, unless you run a server or something...