[clue] Firewall tool recommendation.

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Tue Mar 29 12:08:11 MDT 2016


Charles Burton wrote:
> I agree with Shawn.  Generally using PFSense or IPFire on my edge(I switch
> between the two depending on how irritated they make me) and for hosts I
> use salt to manage the firewalls.  It has a nice module built in
> https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.iptables.html

I'll look at the salt stuff.

I realized I'd used firehol once before and that looks like it fits the bill pretty well. Docs could 
be better but it's simpler than firewalld. But we'll see what happens when I try to replace 
firewalld on RHEL with firehol.

Dave


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