Firewall Software

Mercurius · 10-18-2005, 11:03 AM

What firewall software would you recomend to substituate iptables?

Gort32 · 10-18-2005, 11:06 AM

In reality, iptables is pretty much the best thing out there for Linux. About the only thing better is using OpenBSD as a standalone firewall.

Lleb_KCir · 10-18-2005, 11:09 AM

what about IPCop as a stand alone firewall?

Mercurius · 10-18-2005, 11:35 AM

I read the tutorial for iptables but i dont understand the diagram in this link

http://www.netfilter.org/documentati...g-HOWTO-6.html

I have cable-connections that runs from the modem to my eth0. How come the three chains in relation to my physical network topology?

alaskazimm · 10-18-2005, 11:35 AM

Ipcop or Smoothwall as a standalone firewall is excellent. If you don't have a spare computer, then there are several very good firewalls out there. I personally use Shorewall, but if you want more of a GUI config then Firestarter or Guarddog are both good. These three are based on iptables and especially the last two take the sting out of configuring them.

Mercurius · 10-18-2005, 11:39 AM

I am getting around pretty well with iptables, I finally understood, it's not so hard once you get to know it, i like more console stuff so I try to keep GUI minimal with Fluxbox.

Mercurius · 10-18-2005, 11:56 AM

Hmm, I'm having trouble understanding iptables even with that tutorial. Any ideas?

Edited : Does Firestarter has support for X only? Or do I need to install gnome for it? It seems I am missing some Gconf2 library in order to compile it...