Firewall

[Dmitry Mityugov]

On 10/18/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
>
> > On 10/18/05, Randall J. Parr <RParr at temporalarts.com> wrote:
> >> I, personally, hate editing iptables config files by hand.
> >> There are quite a few GUI front-end / configurators for iptables
> >> firewalls available.
> >> I would recommend firestarter,  guarddog/quidedog,  or fwbuilder (in
> >> order of difficulty/power).
> >>
> >> I think all three are available via apt-get install ...
> >
> > But none of them are available in the main repository. I believe only
> > shorewall is there.
>
> People don't actually try to run ubuntu _only_ from main do they?  They're
> all in "universe" (including shorewall).

shorewall is in main, at least on i386, most other products mentioned
in this thread aren't.

Do you use Universe or not I believe depends on how you're going to
use the machine and what data will be stored there. As an indirect
example, the number of workstations in the world is larger that the
number of servers, but this does not mean that all approaches commonly
used to configure workstations are applicable for a server.

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