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Old 04-14-2004, 06:04 AM   #1
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Best firewall to use?

Hello eveybody,
Finally I have got my linux box tuned with all devices working
pretty well.So now I have to turned to securing the box.
Probably I will need to install a firewall,right? so which one
should I use?,I found there are quite alot of them and I am quite
new to linux.
Does the linux kernel have a built-in firewall so that I can use it?

Any help would be really appreciated.

thanx in advance.
 
Old 04-14-2004, 06:39 AM   #2
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IPTables is already in there - other firewalls tend to be a frontend to iptables.

Have a look at man iptables. And also look through the Linux-Security forum to see other recommendations and how-tos.
 
Old 04-14-2004, 09:17 AM   #3
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IP Tables
 
Old 04-15-2004, 04:16 PM   #4
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IPTABLES

look arround there are lots of tutorials and even frontends to set it up.
 
Old 04-15-2004, 04:22 PM   #5
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thanx all 4 ur replies.I currently readin about iptables and how to use it.
 
Old 04-16-2004, 11:56 PM   #6
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built in firewall is netfilter, iptables just uses this (kinda the the front end of it?)
 
Old 04-17-2004, 03:01 AM   #7
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Just about every firewall solution for linux is a front end to iptables (in turn user space program for the configuration of netfilter)
 
  


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