Firewall Tool

[Chris Mohler]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a firewall tool for my personal Ubuntu 8.04.1. server.
> I've found a number of them in Synaptic, and have tried a few in the past
> (firehol, firestarter, and fwbuilder).
> I've heard that fwbuilder is the best of these, but I found it somewhat
> difficult to use.
> As a consensus of the community, should I continue to persevere with
> fwbuilder, or would a tool such as firestarter really suffice?
>
> Thanks for your input. I appreciate the common body of knowledge within this
> community.
>
> Jack

On my home Ubuntu server I'm using shorewall-perl and configuring it
via Webmin.  I have been warned that Webmin is evil (on Ubuntu), but I
have had no problems.  I find the configuration to be fairly painless
using this method.  Aside from shorewall and occaissionally mysql, I
do no other configuration through Webmin...

Chris