Firewall with Ubuntu

[Joseph]

Thanks, Mario....   I tried one and I forgot the name of it when my system flushed.  <grin>

I had that a PGP program for Thunderbird was interfering with my HTML eMails.  Not sure how I got 
the thing, so I tried to uninstall it and WHAMMO!  There when the system.  I must have removed 
something that was needed to run.  After reinstalling Ubuntu, I put Thunderbird in without the PGP 
thing....   and it works great.

However,  I lost that front end firewall program.  This was not it....   but I may give it a try. 
Of course I'm not the brightest porch light on the block when it comes to Linux.

Is anyone else familiar with Firestarter and what do you think of it??

Joseph





Mario Spinthiras wrote:
> Dear Joseph,
> 
>  You have to be a bit specific with your question. There is kernel level 
> packet filtering with Linux (firewall) called iptables which was the 
> successor to the old ipchains. When you say firewall are you referring 
> to a frontend to this? If so I would check firestarter. I personally 
> have not used it (CLI is a forever torment for a sysadm like me) but it 
> has been well recommended.
> 
> Warm Regards,
> Mario A. Spinthiras
> Nicosia , Cyprus
> Blog: http://www.spinthiras.net
> Mail: mspinthiras at gmail.com <mailto:mspinthiras at gmail.com>
> Skype: smario125
> 
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Joseph <ubuntu at e-pops.org 
> <mailto:ubuntu at e-pops.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     If I may ask....   which firewall do any of you feel is the best for
>     use with Ubuntu?  And why do you feel it's better?
> 
>     Thanks...
> 
> 
>     Joseph Snurr
>     http://e-pops.org/aeamt/GT/607.html
>