Firewall

Rajiv Vyas rajiv1 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 21:00:01 UTC 2005


On 8/3/05, Frank Hale <frankhale1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you have to set up a firewall or is it set up automatically?
> 
> Firestarter is a GUI that configures iptables, it's pretty easy to
> use. There is also fwbuilder but it looked a little more complex.
> Configuring a firewall correctly from my experience is not quite as
> easy on Linux as it is on Windows, especially with regards to writing
> iptables rules manually. Infact I absolutely loath messing with
> iptables rules, it's just a huge turn off considering the amount of
> complexity that it has.
> 
So, what's the solution if someone gets stuck or can't do it right? It
would be scary to run OS that's plugged in to the Internet 24hrs a day
to run without a firewall




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