Hello all

Just after a bit of advice at the moment. I'm currently using mandrake 9.1 and shorewall as my firewall. Shorewall doesn't seem to provide very good logging and doesn't seem to be the best frontend either. I've seen a number of other firewalls mentioned.
firestarter
guarddog
kmyfirewall
Can anyone recommend a particular 1 or 2, that has good logging a nice frontend, and some decent features, that does it's job well less bugs more secure. Any answers would be appreciated.

Cheers

webstuff

so many options leads to so many holes.

Hi

I like FireStartet for easy setup and nice front end and logging ....

For simple to medium complexity firewalls it does the job, besides u can tweak it to do special things not covered by FireStarter.

This my recommendation

Guillermo

Your question is a bit ambiguous as Mandrake uses iptables as a firewall. All the tools you mention are not firewalls per-se but GUI's or tools to configure iptables to meet your needs.

Firestarter
fwbuilder
guarddog

are all good front ends for iptables. I guess the better question is what kind of logging are you looking for from your firewall?

Well as always you can write your OWN iptables firewall; for this step you require at least semi-advanced knowledge of TCP/IP networking and netfilter.

hi all

cheers for your replies. I am after a good frontend, what is the difference between iptables and netfilter or is netfilter built in iptables? The kind of logging i'm looking for is, date, time, source ip source port, destination ip, destination port udp, tcp, and anything else possible. After looking further into the firewalls listed most seem to run on kde, am currently using gnome and likeing it, it's looking like firestarter so far because of this. do any firewalls incorporate ids, as snort looks a bit ott.

cheers

webstuff

he who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

iptables is netfilter

iptables is not IDS....for IDS Snort is solid.....

I have always liked firewall builder as a GUI for iptables....

ipcop?

www.ipcop.org