[WBEL-users] Re: Iptables

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Andy wrote:

> fwbuilder ( http://www.fwbuilder.org/ ) is a really nice gui tool that 
> allows you to set up iptables rules. It will generate a script for you 
> that you can just copy and run on the server.
> 
> It comes with very helpful wizards that will generate basic rules for 
> you, check it out!
> 
> Andy

I heartily recommend this also.  In addition, the author is very responive 
to questions that come up on the mailing list.


> 
> Ganeshram Iyer wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > I am a newbie to Linux and am trying to configure my firewall to a 
> > decent level. I used the script generator at 
> > http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz/1.09 to generate my iptables scripts. But 
> > I am still in the dark as to what I need to do with this script? Do I 
> > just need to copy it to some directory or do I need to execute is as a 
> > shell script? I dont know if this is the right place to ask this 
> > question but my searches have not yielded any results.
> >
> > Thanks a bunch in advance.
> > Ganesh
> >
> > ====================================================================================