[lug] using iptables for exposing web servers on public IPs?

[Michael Hirsch]

On 07 Apr 2005 13:11:40 -0600, Ed Moxley <ed at moxleynet.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> > I've been studying the tutorials on iptables and soliciting for help on the
> > forums on openwrt.org because I'm trying to use a linksys router (WRT54G) I
> > got at Circuit City loaded with the openwrt (a linunx distro) to expose
> > multiple Apache HTTPD sites on my internal network.
> >
> > Whew! That iptables is a complex utility! Anyway, since iptables is not
> > specific to openwrt I thought I would solicit LUG for advice. I'm getting a
> > few suggestions from openwrt.org but nothing is working yet.
> >
> The Shorewall tool (iptables made easy) is handy for what you are trying to do.
> http://www.shorewall.net
> A link to an openwrt version of Shorewall can be found at:
> http://www.shorewall.net/download.html

Another really cool IP tables tool is fwbuilder.  You build up a
firewall with an object oriented GUI builder.  Then the last step is
to compile it to iptables, or ipchains, or Cisco, or BSD ipfilter,
etc.  Very cool.

Michael