Kyle Waters wrote:
SlackwareTeen wrote:
Could anyone point me to a good firewall for linux? Thanks. every time
i find a firewall i think is good, i either don't have the right
libraries, or it doesn't work under any user but root
Let me explain a little how firewalls work in linux.
Built into the linux kernel is something called iptables. This is what
you will be using as your firewall in linux. Everything else you see
is just a front end to make it easier to deal with. Personally I
really like shorewall(you should check and see if it's part of your
distro) There are some nice gui's, but they ALL run as root, because
you can't run iptables as a regular user. Maybe you should let us
know what you expect the firewall to do. I know some firewall's pop
and ask permission to connect to other computers, this is generally
considered useless, and I don't know any linux firewalls that provide
that(Doing it as a non-root user is even more useless).
My favorite gui: http://www.fs-security.com/
Steve
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