Horst Lueck wrote:

>In reference to yesterday's discussion about portsentry, is there any 
>software firewall for a stand-alone machine someone can recommend ?
>(mdk 8.1, as client on cable (server services only needed on 'lo' , like  
>httpd, mysqld,...)) 
>
>I would be happy with something that corresponds to ZoneAlarm where I can 
>quickly change settings, control in/outbound traffic (to block spying, 
>auto-updates, etc), several security levels (some apps require relaxed 
>security at connection time but are more tolerant when connected. With 
>ZoneAlarm I can select which applications are allowed/forbidden/or if I 
>want to be asked for localnet/internet client/server functionality ... 
>many options, all immediately at my disposal.
>
...

If you're looking for something *really* easy to use, you might want to 
consider
commercial products <sigh>...  on that note I have been hearing great 
things about
SideWinder, a product of Secure Computing.  Here's an URL:
http://www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?sKey=232

"Never been cracked"?  What?  No really, I found some *false* alarms on 
bugtraq
but have not heard about ANY vulnerabilities...  I think they require 
that it runs on
their own kernel/distro, but it is linux-based iirc (mebbe bsd).

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