On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:54 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > That would be a sensible solution, but how do you set that up? > > > > Are you using some sort of GUI to control your firewall or are you > editing > > the firewall file by hand? > > > > If you are using a GUI then check out how you can allow ip > addresses. > > > I was using system-config-firewall, but it only offers 'Trusted > Services' > and 'Other Ports'. > > > If you are editing the firewall file by hand (how I do it) then just > add > > the add something like the following: > > > > -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -j > ACCEPT > > > > Here is a great tutorial for IPTABLES > > > > http://iptables.rlworkman.net/chunkyhtml/index.html For relatively simple situations Firestarter may be worth a look as a GUI front end: http://www.fs-security.com/ There is an EL4 binary version on the above site, but it builds OK from SRPM on CentOS-5: http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firestarter/firestarter-1.0.3-1.src.rpm Phil _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos