Re: Debian as Firewall\Router.

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> 	A while ago I had a debian box used at router and adsl connection
> machine. I also had bare-bones iptables firewall, which was really
> inadequate and so I changed to IPcop. Anyway, I wish to go back to using
> Debian as a firewall and router. What I would like to know is a fairly
> comprehensive configuring GUI that I can remotely manage my firewall
> using either browser or dedicated GUI. 
>
> 	Any help to put me in the right direction would be much appreciated.
> The main few I have seen are: Firestarter, fwbuilder and shorewall.
> Which have people found the most efficient and easy use.
>
> I have visited Debian Firewall wiki http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls
>   
Stef

FWIW, when running a direct (i.e. not via a dedicated firewall) 
connection on an old Slackware box, I used Arno's firewall - have done 
an apt-cache search and found it: arno-iptables-firewall "a single and 
multi-honed firewall script with DSL/ADSL support". I was always very 
happy with this set up and I believe that it has a reasonable degree of 
scalability too.

HtH

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