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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:maxamillion@gmail.com">maxamillion@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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.
<br><br>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).
<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>-Adam
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Shane</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jslists@mtwafrica.org" target="_blank">jslists@mtwafrica.org
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I've been looking at the firewall options available in Synaptic<br>for my laptop running Xubuntu Edgy. There are four to choose from:
<br>Zorp, Shorewall, Firestarter and Firewall Builder. Anyone with<br>experience using one or the other of these, or all of them, able <br>to give advice for choosing one for an XU laptop?<br><br>From Googling plus looking at the web sites for the various programs
<br>it seems like Zorp is more server oriented, Shorewall is, in their<br>own words, powerful but not the easiest to use. Firewall Builder and <br>Firestarter look similar and probably better suited for a laptop with<br>
Firestarter being a bit more polished. Does that agree with your<br>experience?<br><br>Thanks, John<br><br>--<br>xubuntu-users mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">
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<div>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.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent </div>