On 2 Nov 2004, Potato Chip wrote: > Is there a recommended firewall package? There seem to be several > available, but was curious if there was a debian recommended one. > > I currently have a hand-crafted script calling iptables directly. > Logging is only provided by iptable's -j LOG parameter, which is less > than ideal.
My recommendation is the 'firehol' package, found in testing/unstable, and trivial to backport[1] to stable. Having tried quite a lot of the other packages out there, this is the one I found with the highest degree of flexibility, and makes it trivial to express complex firewall rules. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] It is a pair of bash shell scripts. -- You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll kiss three bucks goodbye! -- Narrator (Paul Frees), _Hardware Wars_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]