Instead of writing what you are feeling about your lack of initiative to get the help by just typing 'man iptables' you could have provided a list of requirements and your present setup. May be I would have helped you in writing a small script to implement security.
You ask 'So what's the point of even including a tool if it doesn't do anything?' ? If YOU could not get it working does not mean it does not work at all.
And above all, there is google.
VJ
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 21:34, smoothmilk wrote:
Why doesn't redhat-config-securitylevel's iptables rules work?
If I turn off EVERYTHING (www, ftp, ssh, etc) and save, and even manually restart iptables (# /sbin/service iptables restart) other computers on my network can access www (even on weird, non-standard ports with http servers on them) ftp, ssh, etc.
So whats the point of even including that tool if it doesn't do anything? I dont understand how it just flat out doesn't work. I have no idea how iptables works, and because there's no documentation out there for beginners who just want a script that's for eth0 with a simple www, ssh and ftp server(s), Im stuck using rh's tools, which don't do anything. there's no security here.
Can anyone help?