On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Andrew Burrows wrote: > I was wondering if someone could advise me on the best firewall produce to > use on a Linux OS.
Oh dear. We shall all don our asbestos underwear before getting into this one again. Linux doesn't have 'firewall products', per se. You use one of ipfwadm, ipchains, or iptables (depending on kernel version) to set up rules in the kernel which are then used to block/allow/filter/redirect/<whatever> traffic between interfaces. Since ip<foo> doesn't have the most idiot-friendly interface, there is a vast host of programs written to make your life simpler. The difficulty is that no two people can agree on which one to use. To avoid getting roasted by people who don't like my personal choice, I will simply recommend that you look at your distro, freshmeat, and google, to find the choices on offer, and then proceed to evaluate based on your own subjective criteria. I will mention the other breed of firewalling for Linux (which may not suit you since you seem to want one for a going machine) is to find a dedicated distribution which is customised for firewalling. Again, no recommendations will issue forth from this correspondent. However, lwn.net has a comprehensive list of distros from which you may choose. > Looking for something that may resemble say Firewall1 or similar?? Never heard of it, can't comment. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
