Best firewall to use?

Annom · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:08 am Post subject: Best firewall to use?

hey all, wats the best firewall to use with gentoo? or is it safe enough without one?
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greml!n · Apprentice Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 159

Shorewall (google it, I'm lazy) is by far the best firewall package I've used. Configure makes sense without having to analyze every possible security hole and it comes with several pre-defined scenarios for common deployments. The community is also very active for support.

Two thumbs up.

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

shorewall here too

http://www.shoreline.net
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haz3l · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 39 Location: San Francisco

If you feel like being hardcore, build your kern with iptables support and write a set of rules. That is IMO the *best* way to do it because you know exactly what your firewall is doing..

Safe without one? Depends on what you're running. If you have no services, or most are up to date, and you have a kern without that recent bug, its "safe".. I wouldn't do it myself.

Bash[DevNull] · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 333

GurliGebis · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 509

I would surgest making it yourself with iptables, you learn more by doing that

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Bash[DevNull] · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 333

haz3l · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 39 Location: San Francisco

Hrm. Maybe I'll try shoreline ^^

cram · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:25 pm Post subject:

Just like to point out that the correct address for shoreline firewall is www.shorewall.net. The address given by ikaro a few posts above seems to be for a texas christian center.
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Slurp53 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Iowa

I use firestarter mostly because it logs the hits your firewall is taking. You can find it here http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/ Works great and is very easy to use.

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nbensa · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 5:59 pm Post subject:

For starters: shorewall. But it doesn't hurt to learn iptables too ;-)

Annom · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject:

as im a fussy bugger, ill give all the firewalls and other suggestions a try to find out wat i find the easiest and the best, thanks for the info
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