Firewall Recomendation

[Ace69]

I am looking for a secure firewall that has a good GUI so that it would be easy to administer. I have tried to use IP chains from the CLI, but it is just too tedious and the firewall config app doesn't cut it either.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a good firewall app?

Thanks in advance.

[Benny B]

This isn't a gui config firewall, but it is still very easy to setup (you just edit one file) and in my opinion very powerfull.

http://rcf.mvlan.net/

Check it out....


Ben..

[Ace69]

i tried to look at that one, Ben, but it seemed that the website was down. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

[Ace69]

I am trying to figure out how to install Secure Point, but I am such a newbie, I don't know how to install it. :)

[Malakin]

Grab yourself a 2.4x+ kernel if you're not using one already and use iptables.
You can do a search for "iptables" on sourceforge or freshmeat to find a good ruleset or gui frontend, I wrote my own ruleset since it was so simple so I can't recommend any.

[gary_r_james]

I have recently install Clark Connect firewall. It is an open source effort based on RH 7.0. It was easy to install and I have had no real trouble with it. Here is the link Clark Connect Firewall (http://www.clarkconnect.org).

Gary

[Benny B]

Originally posted by Ace69:
<STRONG>i tried to look at that one, Ben, but it seemed that the website was down. Does anyone else have any suggestions?</STRONG>

Hmmmm strange, the site works for me.... :confused:

[demetrius]

Firestarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net) is pretty nice. It has a GUI to set up your rules and is compatible with both iptables and ipchains. Its built to run with Gnome but can be run with any window manager as long as you have Gnome 1.2 or above installed.

[ 05 July 2001: Message edited by: demetrius ]