Arch as a firewall

Bola · 2007-05-17 10:07:27

Well, I have a little question: is it possible to use Arch as a firewall distribution like ipcop and similar?

lucke · 2007-05-17 10:16:31

Sure. It's all based on iptables.

Bola · 2007-05-17 10:22:53

there is any how to or any tutorial? i have no idea how to configure a firewall

lucke · 2007-05-17 11:03:11

Have a look at this page.

Generally, setting up a firewall will require some effort. I'd suggest you to take a look at firehol (needs some patching to work with latest BASH properly; that's what I'm using to set up my firewall), gshield (long not updated), shorewall or some script like Arno's Firewall.

T-Dawg · 2007-05-17 11:06:03

take a look at shorewall. It's a very popular and powerful industrial strength iptables firewall generator. There will be a bit of a learning curve but well worth and far more easy to configure than iptables directly.

scrawler · 2007-05-17 20:45:17

then of course there is the fine and dandy ipcop...

cactus · 2007-05-17 20:52:07

I prefer pfsense myself, for a canned firewall product.
But for roll your own, arch or openbsd would be fine choices.

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