debian-etch gateway
Tom Daly
tom_d at chebucto.ns.ca
Mon Aug 4 16:49:49 UTC 2008
R. Wood wrote:
> You may need to supplement this article above with other
> HOWTO's/tutorials/articles
that's part of the problem- there are so many ...
> I say leave firewalls to the professionals: find a
> good 'firewall script'
I wouldn't know a "good" script from a "not-good" script if it bit me on
the leg :-(
> Two examples of firewall scripts are:
> shorewall
I checked, and version 3.2.6 is installed on my etch machine
<http://www.shorewall.net/two-interface.htm> says:
"This article applies to Shorewall 4.0 and later"
Should I remove it and install current?
<http://www.shorewall.net/Install.htm> says:
> First, to ensure that you are installing the latest version of
> Shorewall, please modify your /etc/apt/preferences:
> Package: shorewall
> Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 700
> Package: shorewall-doc
> Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 700
> Then run:
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get install shorewall
which is fine, but I don't have an /etc/apt/preferences file to modify.
Create it?
perhaps you can see why I'm asking questions ... :-)
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