On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 18:42, 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 For basic firewall configuration try the tool provided by fedora "System Settings -> Security Level" or "redhat-config-securitylevel"