Take a look at shorewall (www.shorewall.net) - distro-independent, has a
VERY simple configuration system, and the latest webmin (1.060) has a
module for configuring it.

Jon

> Hi all,
> 
> I was just asked for recommendations of a good linux distro 
> to run as a router/firewall. The user in question wants a gui 
> type thing to configure it with. He has been using IPCop, and 
> says it has some shortcomings. I was a little surprised that 
> the shortcomings he cited, so I suspect it's actually the UI 
> that is bad.
> 
> Annnyway, I'm looking for something I can suggest to him 
> which will setup a good iptables firewall and is clicky. Can 
> be a firewall app that runs on another distro or a complete 
> distro, I don't really mind.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James.
> 
> 
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