On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:02:27PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > Hi, > > I have managed to convince a friend of mine to try out a Linux based > machine as a router in the company that he works in. At present, all > their computers (around 15 or so) run Windows. They have a router (I > think a consumer grade one) through which they connect their lan > computers to the internet in some way. > > For quite a while he had been complaining about viruses and spyware in > this computers. So I suggested he install Firefox and Thunderbird and > train users not to use IE or Outlook, run spyware and antivirus and > educate users NOT to click on any random links. So far so good. But he > still has problems about controlling his network traffic and internet > security. So now I have convinced him to install Debian (or some other > flavor of Linux) on a machine and make it a jpowerful and fully > configurable router. > > That is the story. Now, I personally have a firewall script (iptables) > set up on my computer. But my friend is not Linux literate at all is not > going to be confortable with bash scripting and vi editor and iptables > in the first go. Is there a GUI firewall application for Linux that can > be installed on router computers to deal with with various applications: > web browsing, email, databases: oracle & siebel, or other Windows stuff? > Suggest shorewall. It is not a GUI, but is extremely well documented. Configuration is done via a group of text files and shorewall has an easy command-line interface to start, stop and query the firewall. If their setup is simple (which it sounds like), then reading the documentation will teach him a great deal about how firewalls work and why certain things are done. In the end, it will be better for him to understand all that stuff. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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