Linux Firewall

[Dennis Ruzeski]

There's 2 routes you can go- Either roll your own from your favorite distro (using IPTables and IP Masquerading.. The IPTables How-To is most helpful here), or go with one of the many many pre-made firewall distros- Smoothwall, IPCop, Coyote-Linux, Astaro-- The list goes on and on. Go to http://freshmeat.net and search the security projects. The homepages of most projects have great info on 5 w's of firewalls. 

FYI- I use IPCop- It can run on very modest hardware, has a built-in dhcp server, IDS (Snort), keeps great logs, has a super easy to use GUI and has VPN support.

--Dennis



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of Timothy J. Finucane
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:01 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Linux Firewall
Importance: Low


I've seen the subject of Linux firewalls discussed on this mail list
before. I was wondering if someone could point me to either online
resources or some books that might teach me how to set up a firewall.

Thanks,

Tim

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