Steve wrote: > What is the best firewall to use with linux mandrake these days? > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > The best GUI around for building firewall policies (the real fw is the iptables component of the 2.4 kernel) is fwbuilder www.fwbuilder.org. This is a very nifty gui that permits to build rules with drag-n-drop like all professional products do, so nice and easy. It also contains a druid (as opposed to the term wizzard). Once a set of rules is created they can be saved, compiled and installed. All you have to do make these rules permanent through a reboot is call /etc/init.d/iptables save. On reboot 'iptables start' will then re-instate them automatically. Make sure 'chkconfig --add iptables' enables the iptables script. You can make fwbuilder call a script that will install the rules and do the 'iptables save' just after it.
Guy.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
