looking for a easy firewall

By William Biggs at 10/01/2008 - 20:18

I'm looking for a good firewall

10 comments

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By Patrick O'Callaghan at 10/01/2008 - 20:37

Try being more specific. What's wrong with system-config-firewall for
example?

poc

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By William Biggs at 10/01/2008 - 20:54

I new to linux and did not know about it

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By Patrick O'Callaghan at 10/01/2008 - 23:45

s-c-f is the standard firewall config tool on Fedora and it's enough for
probably 90% of users or more. It's just a frontend to iptables. Other
Linux distros will have other solutions.

poc

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every message.

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By Timothy Murphy at 10/02/2008 - 06:26

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned shorewall,
which I assumed was the standard Fedora firewall generator.
Maybe it is more useful if you have a system
with several machines?

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By Patrick O'Callaghan at 10/02/2008 - 09:18

Also Firestarter, but calling either of them "standard" in this context
would be a stretch. At least s-c-f is actually distruibuted with the
system, which is a pretty good criterion for "standard" in my book.

I used to use Firestarter on my desktop but with later versions of s-c-f
I found I didn't need it. YMMV of course.

poc

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By Allan Swanepoel at 10/02/2008 - 07:24

Ip cop?

Endian firewall?

monowall?

smoothwall?

<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+firewall" title="www.google.com/search?q=open+source+firewall">www.google.com/search?q=open+source+firewall</a>

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By Brian Millett at 10/01/2008 - 20:34

William Biggs escribío:

look at firewall builder <a href="http://www.fwbuilder.org/" title="http://www.fwbuilder.org/">http://www.fwbuilder.org/</a>

It creates a script that sets up iptables.

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By Ed Greshko at 10/01/2008 - 20:23

What is your definition of "good".

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By William Biggs at 10/01/2008 - 20:44

I try to install firestarter but after setting it up and after I reboot
it says it can not start

Re: looking for a easy firewall

By Craig White at 10/01/2008 - 20:34

Craig