On Thursday 30 December 2004 02:31 pm, neo wrote:
> could someone tell me a good firewall for mandrake 10.1 thank you

I've been using Firehol (http://firehol.sourceforge.net/) successfully for 
about a year now (on half a dozen Linux machines - some being servers, some 
being just desktop units, and then my home PC as well). There's no GUI, etc., 
but it is VERY thorough. It takes one single configuration file, and you can 
actually do advanced stuff with your firewall (for instance, one of our 
machines has dual nic cards due to the fact it sits on the internal network 
AND the external network - I use the same configuration file for 4 servers, 
and it has a section for eth1 which is only executed IF there is an eth1 - 
which would be on that one particular server. This way I have scripts that 
grab the firewall off of the main server when it's changed, and then it 
restarts Firehol, so we do not have to go in and manually copy the firewall 
files and restart Firehol, etc.). There are numerous example configuration 
files, which actually make things look harder than what they have to be, but 
is also a good way to see what it's capable of.

You can also use things like iptables tarpit with it too. The possibilities 
are endless - but you can have the firewall up and running with 10 minutes of 
installing it - and if you've created firewalls with it before, then you can 
have one on a new machine within a minute or so.

-- 
Take care,
Randall Hobbs
Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC
Web Hosting * Programming * Software
http://www.chipcastle.com

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