What are good Firewalls

[Scott Allen]

On Sat Nov 22,2003 04:14:09 PM Ilya Palagin wrote:
> Mark Vining wrote:
>> I have an extra P150 that I am going to set up as a firewall. Are 
>> there any good Debian Packages I should look at?
> 
> Everything you need is a kernel and ipchains|iptables :-)
> 
> Also,
> apt-cache search firewall
> 
> There are some packages which help you to configure a firewall, but 
> finally you'll find out that the only way to make a firewall which 
> does exactly what you want is to manually create a script with 
> firewall rules.

I've found FireHOL to be a good program (bash script, actually) for 
creating iptables firewall rules.

   http://firehol.sourceforge.net/


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