Dude.... i'm trying to setup my slack box firewall, but i don't know how....
so can you guys help me. I'm using a standalone PC.

The only thing that i know when i read some HOWTOs it said that there are suppose to be a rc.firewall in the /etc/rc.d....but i dont find any.

Thank's b4
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Slackware Linux Thoose penguins.... they sure ain't normal!!

Try searching this site for "slackware firewall" or "rc.firewall". Here's a thread that I posted to.

If rc.firewall doesn't exist under /etc/rc.d/, you may not have installed the iptables package during setup. It's under the n series. Even if you have installed iptables, by default rc.firewall is empty, so you can insert your own iptables script. See this thread for an example.

Thank's for your reply spurious. I'am new to linux and i want to know....How important is iptables??? because i heard a lot of people talking about it..

Thanks b4 Ninja_212

Ninja,

I just started using an app called firehol (from sourceforge I think) which sets up iptables for you. It looks good so far, online port scanners suggest I'm locked down OK.

pbhj

http://projectfiles.com/firewall/
At first I tried arno's iptables script, but for some reason it didnt work for me. This script in this link is a bit easier to set up, less knowledge required, it doesnt do loging so I guess its not good for a server or something, but if you just want something to close your ports, this is the one for you.

just save rc.firewall into your /etc/rc.d/ folder, modify it to be configured to your system setup; it should be good to go unless you have internal network interfaces or if you have any dynamic IP interfaces (like ppp0)
# and dont worry, its all HEAVILY commented.

then "#chmod a+x ./rc.firewall", and run it, if it works add it to your rc.S file