[TriLUG] Firestarter for Ubuntu (Dapper Drake)

[Andrew Ball]

Looks great!  I do want to take some time to learn what I'm doing, since I'm
in charge
of the server, but starting off with a well-document configuration for a
router would
be really helpful.

Peace.
Andrew

On 8/19/06, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> 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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