[wellylug] Configuring firewall

[Cliff Pratt]

scott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to second what Cliff said- shorewall is very easy to set up and
> do what you want to do. Just have one of your servers functioning as
> the router/gateway to your Internet connection, then connect all the
> rest of your internal network via hub to 2nd LAN interface on that
> server, then you can create a very granular ruleset as required. Also
> you can use webmin if you want a nice graphical frontend for ruleset
> configuration etc.
> 
Except that webmin (excellent though it may be) doesn't (or more
correctly, didn't) do shorewall configs very well.

Cheers,

Cliff