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APF Firewall is a great firewall solution for Linux. It’s small, really easy to install and configure and it also provides antidos, which is a tool that monitors possible attacks on the server and takes same action. The problem is that the install script is made for RedHat based Linux distro’s and does not work straight away on Debian based ones.
So here is a patch that, when applied to the apf source directory (tested with version 0.9.6-2), will make it install properly under Ubuntu (it’s tested on Feisty and Gutsy but it should actually work on many other types of Ubuntu or even Debian - I have not tested this). (more…)
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