Hi,
I would appreciate opinions about personal experience with firewalls installed under Kubuntu 7.04. Under Debian, I was quite satisfied by "Shorewall" firewall, which co-works excelent with other programs (such as "Azureus" torrent client) but now Kubuntu has automatically installed Ktorrent and I do consider not to install two different torrent clients. Inspecting with aptitude, it seems that Guarddog (which is a KDE make product too) is the most important firewall candidates under Kubuntu but I have no concrete idea of Guarddog and of its relationships with other applications. Any opinion is appreciated.
Thanks!

get firestarter it is easy to configure in kubuntu,search for it in adept

I, myself, like Firestarter, also. It can be dropped, easily. Which confuses co-ordinated attacks when restarted.

Also, pay attention when setting the allowable ports. You definitely want to set it it restrictive mode.

This is done by selecting the Policy tab, then outbound traffic. Set it to restrictive, and only allow the ports you want.

If quickly accessing say, email. Drop the firewall, pull mail, then restart.

will it work on a GNOME environment !>>??

Absolutely!

Yes, I run it in both KDE and Gnome.

Firestarter absolutely works in both Gnome and KDE...

Golly, this is what I have been trying to find out!

I have SUSE 10.3, and I am using the KDE 3.5 environment.
I downloaded Firestarter (said it was a Gnome program) and installed it through the "New" SUSE 1-step download service.
It's there, but I don't know how to start it or whether I even can under KDE. Another person on this web site said I could regardless of it being Gnome. However I am really lost

I opened up YaST and there was a way to check 'Dependencies', I clicked on it and received the following: All package dependencies or OK!
I think this means everything is there for it to work but it doesn't under KDE!
Evidently there is something else I have to do but I don't know what it is!

I forgot to mention I tried contacting the guys who developed this software but there email addresses don't work.

press alt-f2 and type firestarter to launch it

Oh man, thank you ever so much, this has been driving me and everyone else nuts.
Could you please tell me what "alt-f2" does?

it shows the run dialog, you can launch it from the terminal as well

As, indicated. Coordination is key, factorial.

Now, it seems, a lock-set (ie) is most efficient.

that is all i use is firestarter on my linux boxes. its simple and to the point.

From what I hear FireStarter is dead end software that is no longer updated or contributed to by the originator. There is no active email address to them either. Further there was a posting on another forum which stated that FireStarter won't even run on some of the newer distro's. I tried getting it going on SUSE Open but gave up.