GUI for firewall configuration
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Thu May 27 06:13:20 UTC 2004
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:13:52AM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 13:27 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> > This looks really good, thanks for the heads up.
> >
> > On Tue, 25 May 2004 19:11:48 +0200, kh <khage at start.no> wrote:
> >
> > > Mark Haney wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is there a gui for configuring the firewall other than the one in the
> > >> initial install? I guess I'm getting lazy because I'm tired of
> > >> configuring iptables by hand.
> > >>
> > > i an very happy with firestarter. A excellent gui firewall.
> > >
>
> Using firestarter with good success, but had a problem with excessive
> console and GUI messages on the busy intranet at work. Workaround was
> to use "dmesg -n4" to quiet it down, and to turn off display of traffic
> not directed at my host in the GUI. Still lots of logging showing up
> in /var/log/message or interactive dmesg, but at least can now use the
> VCs. Any good advice on this?
You really need a finer-grained logging structure to be totally happy. They
are out there: syslog-ng, etc. They all require work to set up. One of
these days, somebody is going to get pissed off enough to totally boot the
old logging framework out of mainline.
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Jack Bowling
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