FTP and firewall
 

ok, im pretty new to linux, im running RH8 and i want to setup a decent firewall, and an FTP server. Are there any texts online that are worth trusting and an FTP server thats fairly easy to use for a noob who doesnt no much more than how to use the desktop switcher?

Thx

Netfilter+Iptables HOWTO:
LQ search: iptables+howto,
Linuxguruz.org,
Netfilter.org Packetfiltering HOWTO,
Linuxsecurity.com Iptables tutorial,
Andreasson's Iptables tutorial,
Iptables Connection tracking.
Other resources/misc stuff:
Assigned ports > 1024,
Port designations,
FAQ: Firewall Forensics (What am I seeing?),
Linux Firewall and Security Site,
Auditing Your Firewall Setup (old, still usefull),
TLDP: Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO"],
Something called the "Home PC Firewall Guide",
Vendor/Ethernet MAC Address Lookup,
Netfilter Iptabes/Ipchains Log Format,
Dshield (find out if IP was marked as used in attacks),
(Snort) Port search,
Neohapsis Port search,
(IPMasq) P2P ports,
Infosyssec's Firewall Security and the Internet (badly updated site).

For a reliable ftpd I'd suggest Vsftpd or Muddleftpd.
Never ever use wu-ftpd.

If you want a more flexible FTP server than vsftpd is use ProFTPd . From a performance point of view though I archived 64 MBit / s with vsftpd ... I didn't even reach 50 MBit / s with ProFTPd!

guarddog firewall for linux is pretty good, go to google and search for guarddog, it's fairly easy so setup. and just enable ftp stuff when your setting up your firewall.. and i have trouble setting up a ftp server too, hehe, i can't switch the port from 21 to something like 27016...i change it in the proftpd.conf but still doesn't work...