Firewall

[Luis Murillo]

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Well, remember that IPTables is installed and that can be used. Now if
you don't want to mess with it directly you can use:
- - Firestarter: Easy to use graphical app to configuring IPTables. I use
to have this program installed and my firewall configured with it.
- - Arno's Firewall Script: this is not a graphical front-end but a script
which is easy to configure and very secure, since it's a script you have
to do all of your configuration on a .conf file, like squid and other
software do. I have this one currently installed and I recommend it to
anyone :)
- - Bastille: It's a collection of scripts which are configured using a
graphical front-end or the terminal, it does more than just configure
the firewall.

If you're looking to harden your whole system then use Bastille, if you
want a pretty good firewall configuration then use Arno's Firewall
Script, unless you want a graphical app then use Firestarter. Except for
Arno's Firewall Script, they're on the Ubuntu repos.

Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I got my Breezy machine up and running over the weekend, and I LOVE IT
> --
> 
> In digging around a little bit this weekend, I could not find any type
> of firewall listed as being running -- I am a bit leery of leaving an
> exposed machine hanging out on the broadband connection like that, so I
> was wondering where to find / how to configure the firewall for Breezy. 
> 
> Here at work, I use a hardware firewall to keep things sealed up tight,
> so I have not installed iptables on my fedora servers, so I am afraid to
> admit that im gonna need some references for whatever firewall is in
> use.
> 
> Checking the Wiki lead me to several entries that needed built, but
> nothing that contained any useful information other than one entry of
> someone expounding about how a firewall was not needed !!!!  
> 
> Any suggestions, help etc would be greatly appreciated
> 
> 
> 
> Timothy A. Holmes
> IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
>  
> Medina Christian Academy
> A Higher Standard...
>  
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> 
> 
> 

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Luis Murillo
lmurillo at gmx.net
Cel: (506) 351-8251
Heredia, Costa Rica

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