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  From: Alex Wallis <awol@prepaidonline.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:36:15 +1030

Re: RH default firewall settings

At a root prompt type...   setup
That'll let you config all sorts of things.

Or you could type lokkit for just the firewall settings. Choose
customise to open various ports.
I personally on my rh8 box use MonMotha's firewall available from
http://monmotha.mplug.org as it only takes a few minutes to setup and
have a full working lan environment.

If you use a third party firewall you should run (again as root) the
"service iptables save" command to save the rulesets to
/etc/sysconfig/iptables file for use on furture boots.

HTH

Alex

Andrew White wrote:
> 
> Heyas,
> 
> Last night i installed a RH8 box as a server and during the text install i
> selected "medium" for the firewall. This blocks access to every port below
> 1024, which probably isnt that good for this server :o)
> I have read thru the RH docs on redhat.com/docs etc and the only thing that
> i can find that shows me how to change it back to no firewall ( i will setup
> a iptables firewall later) is redhat-config-securitylevel . Unfortunately
> this seems to want to run X, which isnt installed.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what i can maybe apend to redhat-config-securitylevel to
> make it revert to no firewall ? or maybe what else i can do to open up
> atleast ssh over its ppp link?
> 
> Excuse my lack of RH knowledge, been using freebsd for a while.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> drew
> 
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