[TriLUG] Firestarter for Ubuntu (Dapper Drake)

[Owen Berry]

How about something like Shorewall? Maybe still take you too long when
in a hurry, but worth mentioning anyway.

Owen

On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 00:56 -0400, Andrew Ball wrote:
> A little off-topic of this thread, but is there a curses-based firewall
> configuration tool in some Ubuntu package repository?  Firestarter
> is nice, but I want to run a router without X and am always pressed
> for time when I want to sit down and learn more of the details of
> iptables.
> 
> I suppose a good solution would be for me to take the iptables rules\
> from my Ubuntu server running Firestarter and make a service out of
> it in init.d .  Shouldn't be too hard ...
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Andrew
> 
> On 8/18/06, Neil L. Little <nllittle at vnet.net> wrote:
> >
> > I had replaced the contents with a list I found on the Ubuntu Forum. I
> > neglected to add the
> > country code on the front of the urls. After I did this and did the
> > apt-get update I was able to get my package.
> >
> > Thanks for the help!
> > Neil Little, WA4AZL
> > JARS Forever!! ...er TRILUG Too!
> >
> > > >> I have been trying to install a firewall package called
> > > Firestarter. The
> > > >> forums are saying that I must go into my sources.list file and
> > > uncomment
> > > >> the "universe" repository. I did this and then I tried to install
> > > >> Firestarter using APT-GET (apt-get install firestarter) and it did
> > not
> > > >> find any thing. So am I doing something wrong or has that package
> > been
> > > >> taken out of the repository?
> > >
> > >
> > > Do an apt-get update, then the install.  Apt needs to read in the
> > > packages available in universe before it knows it's there to install.
> >
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