Firewalling Help

dystopic · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 2 Location: Folsom, CA

I've been running gentoo for a little over a month now and feel that I'm finally ready to make the transition completely to linux.

The only obstacle in my way is setting up a decent software firewall on my box. When I was learning I used a SMC router for a firewall but I need to do things like play rtcw and use irc effectively so I've gotta go software. I've installed iptables and read countless posts/docs on it but am still a bit confused. I'm looking for a tool that can configure it for me in a more understandable fashion than just hacking the text. I'd like to get the same level of security as say zonealarm (yeah I know its a poor analogy since linux is infinitely more secure) for windoze, something that stealth's ports etc. So is there any efficient, perhaps gui based method to setting up a decent firewall? I looked through the portage ebuild descriptions but haven't found anything yet. Help would be appreciated.

Thanks

delta407 · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:25 pm Post subject:

You still have to know some general information about firewalls, but look at fwbuilder. It's in the Portage tree, too.
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kashani · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 6:50 am Post subject: RE: Firewalling help

I've been using firestarter under Mandrake 8.2 for a month or so now. If you don't mind installing various gnome binaries it works great. The startup menus do a decent job of walking you through setup. I prefer to edit the scripts it creates via vi after it's been setup, but YMMV.

emerge -p firestarter

kashani
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kraaij · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 8:44 am Post subject: try this thread

Hi,

maybe you can also find something interesting in this thread

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=13339&highlight=

Good luck,
Anton