OT: VPS: Hosting providers? How it's done?

[Chris Mohler]

On 4/24/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
[...]
> I wanted to set up a firewall, as running bare bothers me and the logs were
> showing enough attempts to make it worthwhile, especially for FTP.  I found
> that I couldn't use any iptables modules, state, tcp, udp, or recent, which
> made for a rather useless firewall.  I think that those modules and others
> could reasonably be preloaded or built into the kernel and so made
> available to all the clients, but I don't know if any hosting company does
> it.

Well we do have iptables, and use apf as the "firewall".  Don't even
know if states can be configured in apf - I just cut off everything
but web, mail, and a custom SSH port...

Chris