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so firestarter messed up my performance pretty badly, supposedly because i use KDE instead of GNOME...i'm using mandrake 8.2 which also seems to come with some firewall wizard, but i can't actually find the file to start it up...just wondering what firewalls work well with KDE 2.2.2.
No, there is an option in MDK8.0 to configure a firewall which apart from denying certain servers from operating, such as telnet and smtp, firewalls off your machine.
You could try a search on freshmeat.net for firewalls.
Ipchains are just old, Iptables are replacing them. Redhat has the ipchains and iptables, and loads the ipchains during startup by default
it is in a script in /etc/rc.d/init.(some number, maybe all)/ipchains
there is one for iptables in the same folder. to change from ipchains to iptables, you need to go to the directory and run
./ipchains stop
./iptables start
then if you know any cool rules for iptables, run those.
Mandrake should have the scripts in similar places
goto netfilter.samba.org for more information about them
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