intelligent iptables gui's

[Claude Jones]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I've been watching the iptables threads, hoping I'd find some clues as 
> to how to go about carving a hole a few port numbers wide for 
> bittorrents use.
> 
> As I also have an external router, a linksys BESFR41, I'd probably 
> have to setup something in it also, and that seems fairly clear, but 
> I've never been able to get a torrent going through it.  My iptables 
> rules ATM are fairly bulletptoof, (you cannot see me from the 
> internet other than a closed identd port) so my question is this:
> 
> Do any of these iptables gui front ends have a preset option to output 
> a pre-canned ruleset that will pass the torrent, but still maintain a 
> reasonable level of security outside this open port range that the 
> torrent needs?
> 

Can't spead to FWBuilder, which I'm learning, or Guarddog, but 
FireStarter which I currently use has a policy for BitTorrent and is 
very easy to activate - in fact, I normally keep it off, and just turn 
it on when I want to use it.

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA