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Name: i
Date: October 2, 2002 at 09:49:27 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: pentium 4
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which is the best firewall?



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Response Number 1
Name: armin
Date: October 2, 2002 at 10:21:36 Pacific
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iptables


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Response Number 2
Name: jared
Date: October 2, 2002 at 10:51:39 Pacific
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I seem to have a lot of firewalls on my system (Mandrake 9): iptables is installed, shorewall, prelude and Bastille. But I dont know which one is really active? Shorewall seems to be started at boot but I did not have to do a setup, I might want to change the rules. I guess even if the iptables packages are installed, that doesn't mean it's active? Is there a GUI to configure iptables?
Thanks


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Response Number 3
Name: armin
Date: October 2, 2002 at 11:24:58 Pacific
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ive read about something called firestarter, but ive never tried it.

if youre interested in iptables check out the netfilter howto and www.linuxguruz.org. they have some nice example scripts there.


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Response Number 4
Name: armin
Date: October 2, 2002 at 15:02:16 Pacific
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bastille and shorewall are just frontends to iptables, prelude is an IDS


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Response Number 5
Name: SQU@RE
Date: October 2, 2002 at 17:32:48 Pacific
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Many people would recommand the IPTABLES to me.


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Response Number 6
Name: abatis
Date: October 4, 2002 at 16:31:27 Pacific
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I use firestarter - slick and simple. Also lets you see all the hits youur machine recieves and to what port.


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