alternative to firestarter?

[Dax Solomon Umaming]

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debian 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

I'm personally using Guarddog on my Kubuntu, but if you want something
really powerful and versatile, nothing beats creating IPTables rules from
scratch. You can use FWBuilder as a frontend for IPTables.

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Dax Solomon Umaming
http://knightlust.com/
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