[xubuntu-users] Firewalls on an XU laptop

[Vincent]

On 16/03/07, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Firestarter is the application I personally recommend to all users for
> general use, its very easy to use and for anyone with basic knowledge of
> firewalls it will offer many options that make even advanced users right at
> home controlling the point-and-click interface.
>
> I use firestarter on all my personal machines, on my work machines, and
> even on the test server I am working on at work (out of laziness because I
> don't want to spend time bothering with iptables configuration for test
> implementations).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Adam
>
> On 3/15/07, John Shane <jslists at mtwafrica.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've been looking at the firewall options available in Synaptic
> > for my laptop running Xubuntu Edgy.  There are four to choose from:
> > Zorp, Shorewall, Firestarter and Firewall Builder.  Anyone with
> > experience using one or the other of these, or all of them, able
> > to give advice for choosing one for an XU laptop?
> >
> > From Googling plus looking at the web sites for the various programs
> > it seems like Zorp is more server oriented, Shorewall is, in their
> > own words, powerful but not the easiest to use.  Firewall Builder and
> > Firestarter look similar and probably better suited for a laptop with
> > Firestarter being a bit more polished.  Does that agree with your
> > experience?
> >
> > Thanks, John
> >
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I use Firestarter at home, but I have no experience with any of the other
firewalls you mentioned, so I can't compare. I do know Guarddog and
Firestarter are the two best-known ones, and Guarddog is KDE, so that's why
I went with Firestarter.

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Vincent
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