On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 05:42:50PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > Was the consensus Shorewall?? I tried the archives to no avail. I > want to open the standard stuff like www, ftp, ssh, named, pop and > smtp, and some ports for Webmin and want to block the rest. What's > the easiest for a newbie to start with? Thanks! - John firestarter.sf.net. It has a little gui that you can use to start, stop, change firewall rules, etc. It's the easiest way to run a firewall on your desktop machine. If you're looking for a dedicated firewall distro to use on a dedicated machine, try ipcop.org. Very easy to administer and a good way to make use of older computers. I'm running it here on a 486 w/16 mb ram and a 400 mb hard drive.
