Re: Newbie needs some help

From: notbob (notbob_at_nothome.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:27:51 GMT

On 2004-03-30, Aaron <goaway@spam.invalid.com> wrote:
> Alright, so I'm in the process of ditching Mickey$oft and switching over to
> Linux. One of the few concerns that I have left is that I don't know jack
> about firewalls for Linux. Can anyone recommend a firewall that would be
> fairly easy for a Linux noob to install and set up?

Newer versions of linux come with netfilter/iptables, a very powerful
filtering program (commonly called a firewall). Unfortunately, it's pretty
steep climbing for newbs. Here's lotsa links:

http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/

There are many gui front ends that make it a little easier. Do a google
search for 'iptables gui' and 'iptables frontend'.

Red Hat comes with a basic netfilter implementation you can set to 3 basic
settings (low, med, high security) during install.

nb

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