[Novalug] bots / linux
Mackenzie Morgan
macoafi@gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 12:40:56 EST 2008
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 12:29 -0500, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> Trying to climb out of the pit of ignorance, how does on "turn-on" /
> enable iptables in Ubuntu? From what I've read, one *must* know what they
> are doing w/ iptables or step quickly into deep doo.
>
> Of course I don't even know, for the most part, which ports are enabled,
> used, not used.
Firestarter is a nice GUI for configuring iptables. There's also ufw,
which is a command-line simplified wrapper for iptables, but in 8.04 it
can't do outbound rules without you mucking about with iptables-restore
syntax.
--
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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