Setting Up Arno’s Firewall 2

April 30, 2008 Linux Security | Comments (0) admin @ 7:13 pm

You can download file for installing at this link http://rocky.molphys.leidenuniv.nl/page/iptables/download.htm Download this file arno-iptables-firewall-1.8.2a-stable.tgzDownload and Installing

Next, Create directory name “arno” :
Login as root

[root@test root]#cd ..
[root@test /]#
[root@test /]#mkdir arno
[root@test /]#

Untar file from your downloaded into /arno/ directory

[root@test /]#cd arno ////Change directory to /arno directory you need to store file downloaded at this and use command as below :

[root@test arno]#tar -zxvf arno-iptables-firewall-1.8.2a-stable.tgz

You will have 10 files in this directory, Next, you need to delete arno-iptables-firewall-1.8.2a-stable.tgz file.

[root@test arno]#rm arno-iptables-firewall-1.8.2a-stable.tgz

You have configuration file and 2 file for setting up that is rc.iptables and iptables-firewall.conf

You need to change Owner all file to root Owner via command as below :

[root@test root]#chown -R root /arno

Change Permission on some file via command as below :

[root@test root]#chmod 700 /arno/rc.iptables
[root@test root]#chmod 600 /arno/iptables-firewall.conf

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Setting Up Arno’s Firewall

Linux Security | Comments (0) admin @ 7:02 pm

About Arno’s Firewall
Very secure stateful filtering firewall Both kernel 2.4 & 2.6 support

It can be used for both single- and multi(eg. dual)-homed boxes

Masquerading (NAT) and SNAT support

Multiple external (internet) interfaces

Support multiroute masquerading (NAT)

Port forwarding (NAT)

Support MAC address filtering

Support for DSL/ADSL modems

Support for PPPoE, PPPoA and bridging modem setups

Support for static and ISP assigned (DHCP) IPs

Support for (transparent) proxies

Support for DMZ’s and DMZ-2-LAN forwarding

(Nmap)(stealth) portscan detection

Protection against SYN-flooding (DoS attacks)

Protection against ICMP-flooding (DoS attacks)

Extensive user-definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log flooding

Includes options to optimize your throughput

User definable open ports, closed ports, trusted hosts, blocked hosts etc.

Log & protection options are both highly customizable

Support for custom iptables rules in a seperate file

It can be used with chkconfig runlevel system (eg. RedHat/Fedora)

Main focus on TCP/UDP/ICMP but additional support for *ALL* IP protocols

It works with Freeswan IPSEC (VPN) & SSH Sentinel (http://www.freeswan.org) (+virtual IP’s)

It works with PoPTop PPTP (http://www.poptop.org)

It works with UPnP

DRDOS protection/detection (experimental)

It’s easy to configure

And much more…

Download and Install

Apache Installation From Source Code

Apache Installation

Check what packages is requires for httpd with command and remove it : #rpm -q –whatrequires httpd

1. Remove any old packages if they exist and kill the processes.Apache
#rpm -e redhat-config-httpd
#rpm -e httpd
#ps aux | grep httpd
#killall httpd

2. Create a new directory for your source, move to that directory, and download your files.
#mkdir -p /usr/local/src/webserver
#cd /usr/local/src/webserver
#wget ‘apache source file from website .tar.gz’
#tar zxpf filename.tar.gz

3. Create your configure script.
#pico apache_install

4. Add the following to the script.
#cd /usr/local/src/webserver/apache_version
#make distclean

./configure –prefix=/usr/local/apache –enable-module=so –enable-rewrite=shared –enable-setenvif=shared –enable-mime=shared –enable-mime_magic=shared –enable-dir=shared –enable-auth=shared –enable-access=shared –enable-alias=shared –enable-status=shared –enable-userdir=shared –enable-vhost_alias=shared –enable-env=shared –enable-log_referer=shared –enable-log_config=shared –enable-log_agent=shared –enable-headers=shared –enable-speling=shared –enable-ssl=shared

5. Make the script executable.
#chmod +x apache_install

6. Build and install Apache.
#./apache_install
#cd /usr/local/src/webserver/apache_version*
#make
#make install

7. Link your control files.
#ln -s /www/bin/apachectl /usr/bin/apachectl
#ln -s /www/bin/apachectl /usr/sbin/apachectl

8. Start it up.
#apachectl start

Done for Apache Installation.