Did you try firestarter? It comes with Fedora 10 and it makes you really
stupid about iptables because you don't need to know much.
Plus once you learn the config files /etc/firestarter/inbound you can edit
them remotely without the gui and restart the firewall.
Jim
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Robert Eanes wrote:
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> From: Dylan Hardison <dylan@hardison.net>
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> Subject: Re: [SLUG] [OT] Good open source Firewall?
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> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:08 AM, <blee2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>> Despite my dedication to the command line (tm), for firewalls I need
>> some sort of GUI for everything to make sense. IPtables/IPchains never
>> did it for me.
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> Try pf on openbsd some time, it's really nice.
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> pfSense if you are a BSD fan or IPCOP is a linux fan. Both are very good, but pfSense has gotten some really good reviews for it's UI being more intuitive than IPCOP.
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