Re: Which firewall?

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:27:36 +0100
Grzegorz <agarakt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mirto Silvio Busico napisa?(a):
> > Hi all,
> > I have to setup a firewall for a little network.
> > The firewall machine will have multiple ip addresses for a physical lan
> > card (eth0 eth0:1 eth0:2).
> >
> > Looking to the packages (for Etch) I see some firewall; so there is the
> > question:
> >     Can anyone recommend to use (or to avoid) any of the following?
> >
> >         fireflyer
> >         fwbuilder
> >         kmyfirewall
> >         shorewall
> >
> > Any information will be greately appreciated.
> >
> > Mirto
> >
> >
> >   
> iptables
> (isn't some of the mentioned above firewalls just GUI for iptables?)
> 

All of them are just frontends to iptables (wouldn't say gui since at least
shorewall isn't a gui, although it can be configured through webmin)

>