Re: Recommended Firewalls

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

I had tried setting up webmine in the past and couldn't get the setup 
working completely.  I think that may have been because I wasn't using a 
java browser to talk to it then.  Thanks much for these firewall 
suggestions.



On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote:

> You can try Shorewall, that's console based and if you've setup webmin you
> can also manage it using a webinterface.
>
> If you are more in to colors you can have fwbuilder... It's a gui based
> firewall configurator that compiles shellscripts that  setup iptables.
> Nice thing about fwbuilder is that you manage multiple fw's remotely, even
> from windows machines. Using ssh it copies over the script and applies it
> to a firewall. The interface is very checkpoint like.
>
> All these are iptables based... Check it out@
>
> http://www.shorewall.net
> http://www.webmin.com (this has it's own iptables mangler also!)
> http://www.fwbuilder.org
>
> If you need something that gives you most control on the console on the
> actual firewall in case of an emergency i would go for shorewall as
> everything is local. But i mainly use fwbuilder, if i get in trouble i
> just iptables --flush or have a vanilla fw script (made with fwbuilder)
> ready.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bart
>
> > So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none
> > of the G.U.I. will talk yet?  Is there a console equivalent for guardog?
> > I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it alone.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Clyde Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Chris, great tip!  I'll give it a try.
> > >
> > > --- Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Clyde Wilson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1.  Can anyone recommend
> > > > an easy but fairly
> > > > > good firewall?
> > > > > Thanks for your time!
> > > >
> > > > If you are talking about a personal firewall for
> > > > your PC, have alook at
> > > > Guarddog. It configures IPtables, so you only need
> > > > to run it to
> > > > configure or reconfigure the firewall. Its a KDE
> > > > program, but runs in
> > > > Gnome with no problems. Its also easy. Have a look
> > > > at
> > > http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Setting_up_a_personal_firewall_on_Debian_using_Guarddog
> > > > Chris.
> > > >
> > > >
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