-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:11:26AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, den 25.04.2007, 15:05 -0400 schrieb Celejar: >>> Well, on this list our (including me) favorite firewall is >>> Shorewall, >> Well, is it? Mine's IPCop, though. >> > > iptables here. It's a little bit tough to set up, but in the end it's > worth it in my opinion. Once you get used to the way iptables works > you can build a firewall for any system.
IPtables is *the* Linux firewall. Most of the other things people are discussing here are higher-level tools designed to configure the kernel-level IPtables stuff. For a desktop system, I prefer Firestarter. For a server or headless system I use Shorewall, mostly because it's easily administered via Webmin. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1-3 "Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" -- Homer Simpson, "Mom and Pop Art" [AABF15] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMI4LhuM+Z62a52oRAin5AKCUMMhNEYlWBxmGR1oryfFMAuiSEwCeLnrW 2CBJBADXeh4IicqlCspKMVI= =zeF7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]