Hack attempts

[David Cary Hart]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:54, Jim Higson wrote:
> > Can you harden a linux system as good or better than a cheap hardware
> > firewall, you may be able to today, someone new maybe not.
> 
> Well, there's always firewall-specific distros - smoothwall and the like. I'm 
> pretty sure a newbie could work out how to set up a hardened Linux network in 
> less than 10 minuites with a Smoothwall CD. Ok, that's slightly cheating 
> because it's turning an old computer into a cheap hardware firewall.
> 
The BEST, simplest, most obvious GUI I have ever found was the WEBMIN
module for IPTables. By then reviewing the resulting iptables file, I
learned enough to eliminate Webmin.