gigli wrote: > I wonder if there is any easy firewall for gentoo. I tried ubuntu for a > while and used their ufw, which was very simple. > > My needs: > > Block incoming traffic except for sshd and https (and sometimes > bittorrent) and allow my lan to connect to my samba share, mythtv and > mysql when i use openvpn or allways, which would be easyist. My box is > usually protected by pfsense.
I'll second the request. What I'd really like is one similar to what's on the mac where basically when an app attempts to connect to a port, a popup asks if you want to allow it. In the meantime I've been using shorewall which is way more complicated than I like.