Easiest firewall?

[David Fletcher]

I'd agree with this too. I'm no sort of an expert - I don't know enough to go 
hacking the config files with a text editor to set up something like iptables 
but I knew what I needed to get the firewall to do for starters, which was to 
pass CUPS packets from another machine to enable it to use the printer on my 
PC.

I'm still running RH9 on my PC but FC1 is installed on my son's PC in the next 
room. Firestarter so far as I can tell has completely replaced the iptables 
stuff that is normally installed by RedHat as it starts up.

All I then needed to do was start up the firestarter gui and watch for hits on 
the firewall. Right clicking on hits let me easily get the machine talking to 
the Red Hat time server again, and allow CUPS to operate across the network.

So, firestarter gets my recommendation for an easy to use firewall setup tool.

Dave Fletcher




I 2nd firestarter.  Real easy gui interface.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Schwendt" <fedora at wir-sind-cool.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Easiest firewall?


> On Sat, 8 May 2004 17:42:50 -0500, John Fleming wrote:
>
> > Was the consensus Shorewall??  I tried the archives to no avail.  I want
to
> > open the standard stuff like www, ftp, ssh, named, pop and smtp, and
some
> > ports for Webmin and want to block the rest.  What's the easiest for a
> > newbie to start with?  Thanks!  - John
>
> Firestarter maybe?
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/
>
> Else be sure to search the directory at http://freshmeat.net for other
> solutions.
>
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