IP Address blocking

[Nigel Wade]

Chris Ruprecht wrote:

> 
> If somebody could point me to some documents that describe in simple
> terms, how to configure the firewall properly, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> I have looked at firestarter and yes, it works - it either blocks
> traffic or it lets traffic in - but it looks a little too primitive for
> a production server. 
> 

Try fwbuilder. http://www.fwbuilder.org/. It's an excellent GUI firewall 
configuration tool.

I use it for our border firewall and host firewalls on the mail and web 
servers.

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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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