Looking for a Firewall

[Bruce Anderson]

I did end up going with Firestarter, but I am having trouble configuring
it.  I don't understand any of the preference selections, and it has made it
so I am unable to connect with the other computer in my house. If I want to
get docs off the other machine I have to disable Firestarter, and retrieve
the docs and re-start Firestarter.  I have never had this trouble with my
Windows based firewalls.

Bruce

On 5/7/07, Munro, LG, Mr <munrol at sun.ac.za> <munrol at sun.ac.za> wrote:
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>  Hi Bruce
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> Glad you didn't loose your O/S with the smoothwall experiment.
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> Your selection of a firewall will depend on your needs and skill level.
> If you require a site firewall, linking various sites with VPN etc,
> smoothwall or IPcop on a dedicated machine will be your answer.  However, by
> the sound of it you only require something for the edubuntu box.  For the
> sake of simplicity I would recommend firestarter.  You can do everything in
> a nice GUI which is human understandable.  It modifies your iptables to your
> basic needs.  You can find it in Synaptic or do:
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> * *
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> *sudo apt-get install firestarter*
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> Once installed, you should find it under the INTERNET sub menu with
> Firefox and the rest.
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> Many linux experts will advise you to use shorewall (scripts) or get a
> good manual on iptables, but I believe for your needs on a private network,
> Firestarter is the answer.  Anything else, consider a more complicated setup
> as mentioned.
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> Regards,
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> Laurence
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> *From:* edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:
> edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] *On Behalf Of *Bruce Anderson
> *Sent:* 04 May 2007 08:26 PM
> *To:* edubuntu-users
> *Subject:* Looking for a Firewall
>
>
>
> I just tried installing a firewall to my new system.  I had downloaded
> Smoothwall 2.0, when I tried to install it nothing happened (thankfully).
> I discovered and read the installation instructions and found out that it
> would have wiped my whole system.  Now, I have 2 questions, how do you
> install stuff on a Linux machine? and can anyone reccomend a good firewall,
> as I'm a bit gunshy now after the smoothwall incident.
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> Bruce
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