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? >
