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Offline bigpcman

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what happened to firewall?
« on: August 22, 2011, 07:57:14 PM »
What happened to "firewall-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tcz" ?
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Offline Rich

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2011, 08:22:37 PM »
Hi bigpcman
It's still listed in the 2.x repository.    http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/tcz_2x.html

Offline curaga

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 03:48:00 AM »
The firewall extension for 3.x is called netfilter-.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2011, 02:16:51 PM »
is there much diff btwn 2.x and 3.x firewall ?
I am still using 2.x fw and am happy using it ! :)

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 08:34:27 AM »
3.x supports more filtering options.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2011, 02:31:03 PM »
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3.x supports more filtering options.
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Are they much important for a common user like me ?
Actually you had so buetifully explained all the minute details of firewall setup in one of my security thread - ''how much tinycore is secured..'' or something like that long ago.. I  am still using the same setup for my most of the online security needs...thanks to you and all other who guided me in that discusion.
by the way I heard that now a days real threats are more hidden in newly updated / developed packages rathar than firewall.. do`nt know much...

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2011, 11:05:00 AM »
No, the changes shouldn't be important to common use.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

Offline cURIOUSgEORGE

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2011, 07:32:22 AM »
Well I'm embarrassed to ask but better be safe then sorry , I downloaded iptables from the appbrowser and I have it set in onboot.lst but does netfilter have to be in onboot.lst  in order for the firewall to work ?

Also how do I check if the firewall is working ?

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2011, 07:44:05 AM »
netfilter is a dependency of iptables. Do nothing, TC will take care.
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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2011, 08:57:18 AM »
Well tank ya bmarkus  8)

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Re: what happened to firewall?
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2011, 08:59:08 AM »
Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
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Also how do I check if the firewall is working ?
Please start a new thread for this question.