Andy Judge wrote:
I was curious what firewall software (preferably free) is considered
powerful and somewhat easy to use. I wrote my own with ipchains and
ipmasqadm. Mandrake comes with gfcc, but I might as well write the thing by
hand. I've read about the port sentry firewall and that
I was curious what firewall software (preferably free) is considered
powerful and somewhat easy to use. I wrote my own with ipchains and
ipmasqadm. Mandrake comes with gfcc, but I might as well write the thing by
hand. I've read about the port sentry firewall and that looks appealing,
but I
Portsentry is not a firewall, it is a port scan detection utility. It will
listen to all designated ports for behaviour that is supicious, and block
the originating host from accessing your machine. It does this by adding the
offending host to you hosts.deny file, which tcpwrappers reads before
