There are a lot of firewall solutions. One that many people recommend is
pmfirewall. It asks you some simple questions about your network: how you get
your IP address, what services you want accessible, etc., then generates a
customized firewall script. Pmfirewall is based on IPCHAINS, so you do need
to have that installed. (BTW, if you're running a recent version of
LInux-Mandrake, IPCHAINS should already have been in your system.)
You can download pmfirewall from http://www.pointman.org.
Cheers.
M.
On Monday 01 January 2001 08:10, you wrote:
> How does one go about setting up a firewall in Linux? I discovered the
> firewall daemon and am running that...is that how most home users do it?
>
> (When I tried to configure it it complained that ipchains was not
> installed, so I installed it. Does that sound OK?)
>
> I've used IPFilter before, where I could create a list of rules. Is there a
> kernel-driven firewall available?
>
> I have a home computer with a DSL connection.
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
