[NBLUG/talk] Firewall Generator

[Micxz]

"generate expected traffic"?

I'm still confused what this does, it's not security? Your looking for 
trusted networks rather than blocking or droping packets?

I'm a bit confused as what the result we're looking for is?

-- 
Micxz


 > Warren Raquel wrote:
> Well, I was thinking along the lines of running a server in a trusted 
> enviroment to generate expected traffic. A ruleset is then made on the 
> fly from the existing traffic. If anything I think it would be one cool 
> project to work on.
> 
> Micxz wrote:
> 
>> Warren Raquel wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know of any firewall generators out there? I thinking of a 
>>> program
>>> that will automagically create iptable firewall rules based on actual
>>> traffic on your computer within a selected time frame. If it doesn't 
>>> exist
>>> it would be a great project to work on.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure about on the fly script, maybe one running via init that 
>> looked for abuse and made stricter rules depening on the output. I 
>> think that's what you mean, I agree this would be cool. But on the 
>> other hand if you have a good rule set going then there is no need to 
>> create iptables on the fly. This makes a good talk;
>>
>> Some scripts I'd like to try:
>>
>> http://www.fwbuilder.org/
>> http://firewall-jay.sourceforge.net/
>> http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/
>>
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