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russianpirate
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 Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:51 am Post subject: firewall? |
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| i used zonealarm back in windows.. now in linux theres the firestarter frontend to iptables, but is there such a customizable firewall as zonealarm for linux (control apps, network,..) |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:58 am Post subject: |
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the linux firewall in general is iptables - you can only have different front ends to it. Firestarter is the one most windows-alike...
Guarddog might also be worth a look... but they all do the same:
reading the iptables log and locking down ports/ips/...
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| is there anything different that iptables? |
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no.
they're kernel based!
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