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RE: Dumb newbie question
From: "Loomis, Rip" <GILBERT.R.LOOMIS () saic com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20:58 -0400
I saw several other responses, but I think that they were all missing some critical points.
I'm just getting into [Debian] Linux and iptables - a definite newbie! [...] My question is, where is the rule script stored? I want to start trying my own rules but I don't know where the file is to modify.
You've self-assessed as a newbie, but you want to start "trying your own rules". Rather than starting by doing iptables rules directly, I'd recommend that you look at installing a package that will allow you to specify rules using a syntax that's easier to comprehend--I've had good results with the "shorewall" package, but there are other good ones out there. If you're really interested in security, then installing such a package (combined with R its FM) will make it easier to construct a rule set that makes sense. In my experience, teaching myself a packet filter by grabbing random rules off webpages and trying to make soup out of them can have...interesting...results. YMMV, of course--but based on your self-assessment I wouldn't recommend just mucking with iptables rules directly. Not saying it won't work, but you'd learn more quickly by letting a firewall package construct a ruleset for you and then going back and looking at the rules it put together and figuring out what each rule does. -- Rip Loomis - SAIC Brainbench MVP for Internet Security _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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