On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:54, Jim Higson wrote: > > Can you harden a linux system as good or better than a cheap hardware > > firewall, you may be able to today, someone new maybe not. > > Well, there's always firewall-specific distros - smoothwall and the like. I'm > pretty sure a newbie could work out how to set up a hardened Linux network in > less than 10 minuites with a Smoothwall CD. Ok, that's slightly cheating > because it's turning an old computer into a cheap hardware firewall. > The BEST, simplest, most obvious GUI I have ever found was the WEBMIN module for IPTables. By then reviewing the resulting iptables file, I learned enough to eliminate Webmin.
