What is the best fedora desktop firewall solution?

purplehaze · 03-30-2004, 03:15 AM

I'm new to fedora and need a firewall for a single pc only. Is there a good combination of firewall and frontend eg GuardDog and iptables? What is the default firewall and what is its path so I can delete it? The default firewall is useless if you decide to use a timeserver etc after installation. Thanks for any help.

FunkyRes · 03-30-2004, 04:01 AM

I use firestarter.
It'll clear the default firewall rules for you when it starts up - and has a really nice gui interface.

AFAIK it only works with the 2.4 kernel - hasn't been ported to 2.6 kernel yet.

melinda_sayang · 03-30-2004, 04:33 AM

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/..._a_workstation

purplehaze · 04-02-2004, 05:43 AM

Will give your suggestions a try, thanks alot

Pauli · 04-02-2004, 10:05 PM

Use bulldog, its nice. I like it.

wiraone · 04-03-2004, 12:11 AM

If you can wait, FC2 has SELinux built in .. I have no idea how hard it will be though to get started .. I did try out FC2 T2 for a day but revert back to FC1 for now .. surely, it is not ready for the mass just yet.

purplehaze · 04-05-2004, 06:26 PM

Thanks for the info.
will have a look at bulldog aswell, although I found out firestater uses iptables so should be pretty secure