Learn from suse install to improve my Ubuntu install?

[Roger Haxton]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 09:07, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> There are two schools of thought on this.  Personally, I like the belt and
> suspenders approach (Firewall even if nothing is listening), but that's me.
> If they did install a firewall by default, then you'd get to have the
> argument about which one.

I don't really care which frontend they use.  What I miss about SuSE is the 
ability to have my firewall automagically determine which network interface 
I'm using.  Firestarter isn't smart enough to know that my eth0 isn't plugged 
in, but my wireless eth1 is functional and move to protect that interface 
with the same settings that I had setup for my eth0 interface.  That and 
being able to specify whether a port I'm trying to open is TCP, UDP, or both, 
or just some IP protocol. 

If someone knows of a better graphical frontend that I can use (I'm not 
opposed to the commandline, I'm just lazy when it comes to my personal 
desktop.  I'm of the "I want it to just work" mentality".  Servers are a 
different kettle of fish altogether.) I would certainly appreciate the tip.  
SuSE firewall wasn't perfect, but it did what I needed it to most of the 
time.  Other than that one thing, I made the switch to (k)ubuntu several 
months back (right before SuSE 10.1 came out.  I had used SuSE since 8.x with 
differing stops with other distros to test in the meantime.)

Thanks,
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~R~
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