alternative to firestarter?

[Jimmy Wu]

On Dec 17, 2007 9:04 PM, debian <debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> hey all,
>
> im looking for a good alternative to fire starter. After my system got
> attacked a couple days ago (The guy was doing an oldschool attack using
> vnc to "attempt" to install his windows virus onto my machine...and yes
> i found reports of this on google), i decided to put a fire wall on my
> system and the only firewall that i know of is firestarter, however
> firestarter gives me a lot of core dumps and crashes very often
>
> im just looking for a more stable firewall...suggestions are welcome
>
> --cj
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firestarter is just a gui front end to iptables, which is (or should be)
already installed
I've used just iptables rules with no problems

HTH,

Jimmy
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