----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Erik Hemdal" <ehemdal@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:56 AM Subject: RE: Firewall > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 12 > > Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 20:31:02 -0500 > > From: Jason M Evans <jasonevans9@xxxxxxx> > > > > We've been having virus trouble on our network, so I set my computer > > as the host and I've been staying on the Fedora side of my partition. I > > downloaded and printed some firewall tutorials, but it's hard to > > understand (I'm new to Linux). Can someone help me set up a good > > firewall? Also, is it possible to set up a Linux firewall that will > > work even when my Windows side of the partition is booted instead? > > > > Hi Jason, and welcome. Hope you enjoy the ride. > > It sounds as though you have a dual-boot system with Fedora on one side and > Windows on the other. I'm not sure what you mean by setting your computer > as the host, but I'll try to help. > > You won't be able to run a Linux firewall when you are running Windows, at > least without a lot of grief. You might get a Linux firewall to run if you > build it under Cygwin and leave that running, or possibly with VMware or > some other sort of virtualization software. These are guesses on my part, > because I've not tried it. Even if one of these methods would work, I'd > expect you'd find it to be slow and fragile. That's precisely what you > don't want in a firewall. > > If you are running Windows XP, you have a Windows firewall out of the box, > just click the checkbox to turn it on. If you don't have XP, you can obtain > a good firewall for Windows. My favorite is ZoneAlarm, from Zone Labs, and > there are others. Your antivirus software might also provide a firewall > depending on what you bought. > > For the other questions, try posting separately. Anyone who knows Evolution > and GNOME, but who doesn't know firewalls will possibly never read your > other questions, especially if they use a threaded reader. > > When I get to my Fedora box I will try to help, but that won't be for a > while today. But there are lots of people who can also help. > > Erik Check out FireStarter. Nice GUI interface and it is easy to setup a firewall for linux. http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/ Rob
