On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:02, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > What is a good firewall to use? > > I know of iptables and smoothwall. > > iptables is the tool that we use to configure netfilter, the underlying > packet filtering system in Linux. > > smoothwall is an integrated firewall product that uses iptables and > netfilter underneath. > > > Is there any other Firewall that I can use or that would be good? > > I am using Debian Woody and the firewall will sit behind a TPG ADSL > > Router. > > It sounds like you're looking for a firewall product, rather than just the > technology used by them. I'd recommend e-smith <http://e-smith.org/>, which > integrates quite a number of functions into an easy-to-use system. > > Note that most of the firewall products are complete distributions > themselves. e-smith installs from CD, smoothwall is floppy-based, etc. If > you want to use Woody as your firewall, you will need to learn iptables, or > use an firewall construction utility, such as Lokkit, firestarter or > fwbuilder.
I use MonMotha's IPTables firewall script. Easy to configure with sensible defaults. I use the 2.3.8-pre# releases as support for port forwarding (among other fancy things) is included. If you use the prereleases, however, keep an eye on the site to update as bug-fixes are released. Hope that helps, Regards, John... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
