Mandrake 9.0 and firewalls

[Threepwood]

Hello.

Recently downloaded Mandrake 9, everything gets installed fine, then I try to secure everything and life gets complicated.

I started by following the Armoring Linux NHF. I managed to figure out that the file they mention, inetd.conf isn't in this particular distribution, and uses xinetd.conf instead. I noticed that xinetd.conf doesn't have much in it, none of the stuff the NHF was talking about as far as I can tell. I found an xinetd.d directory, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that.

I did manage to use chkconfig to turn off most unnecessary services (I hope)

Then I tried working with Bastille... I read that it was included with Mandrake, but apparently it isn't, so I downloaded it, got that installed, then tried to install the perl-Tk deal that is required, but got a message about it being dependant on libpt.so.1 or some such.

Anyway, I'm just trying to get a reasonably secure setup so I can share Intarweb access with my other two computers. Can anyone help me out here? Or, more accurately, Will anyone help me out here? :D

Thanks,
Threepwood

[bascule]

http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/howto/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO/

Is about the best I can offer, if however you are after a ready made firewall, search fresmeat.net and sourceforge.net I'm sure there's loads.

[jumpedintothefire]

Mandrake 9 has shorewall installed....
You may want to read the shorewall mailing list archives at:

http://www.shorewall.net/

As the story goes mandrake made some changes to it and blew it, the author (Tom Eastep) is waiting for his copy to see what mandrake did and write some instrucions to correct it. Details in the mail archives...