Saarinen, Kalle ActeFI wrote: > I'm looking for a good Linux firewall. Any recommendations? > > Kalle > Well, it depends--standalone or integrated into a single machine?
Mandrake has a wonderful standalone firewall called SNF, but it requires a dedicated machine to stand between the internet interface and the local network running nothing but SNF. This sort of "border firewall" is also available as "smoothwal", a separate product, and esmith gateway, and probably as the linux Router Project in one of its many forms. If you want a firewall on your own machine, open a terminal and su to get into privileged mode then Inter<tab> will cause InteractiveBastille to be spelled out and <return> will run it and you can learn about firewalling as you choose your rules to set it up. You may want to edit /etc/security/limits.conf to keep from being gigged about files too big. It has a rather low limit, which is activated by setting up the firewall. Civileme There are several otherfirewalling tools on the distribution CDs, drop in CD#1 and select Expert. Upgdate and toggle to the flat list on indiividual package selection and spend a couple hours reading about all the uninstalled packages you can select to find them.
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