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Firewalling

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by OliverH, Jul 20, 2005.

  1. OliverH

    OliverH Member

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    I see a lot of people have mentioned APF when wanting to firewall their cPanel box. Is there any danger in using the standard /etc/sysconfig/iptables when configuring the firewall on RHEL4? I noticed the bandmin puts in a lot of rules for monitoring bandwidth - how does bandmin interact with firewalling packages and/or straight iptables rules?
     
    #1 OliverH, Jul 20, 2005
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    APF uses IPTABLES. APF sets up rules and adds them to IPTABLES when the service is started, and flushes IPTABLES when the service is stopped. I haven't seen any problems with it and you should be able to set IPTABLES rules manually without issues.
     
    #2 Blue|Fusion, Jul 21, 2005
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    I installed APF successfully on RHEL 4 today w/cPanel

    Works fine for me, setup is

    WHM/cPanel Stable
    RHEL 4

    I am very satisfied :)
     
    #3 evps, Jul 24, 2005
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    We would prefer to use straight iptables rules generated by filtergen... can anyone tell me how and when bandmin inserts its rules?
     
    #4 OliverH, Jul 24, 2005
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