Does anyone know of a good, configurable firewall?

SuSE Personal is not configurable and prevents active ftp, Firewall2 is an abortion, erratically and randomly blocking my internal network, some simple network transactions regularly freeze the whole system. This effectively makes Linux as (if not more) flaky than Windows.

The following link is a good template that I use for my firewall. It's about as configurable as you can get. It does help to familiarize yourself with IPTables. Hope it helped http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/howto/c-html/stronger-firewall-examples. html#RC.FIREWALL-2.4.X-STRONGER

In a previous message, Dave Barton wrote:

Shorewall won't even install. Adamantly insists that SuSE 8.0 is distributed with kernel <= 2.2

It will - just ignore the error (use --nodeps). At least, I've had it installed and running on 7.3 and 8.1. There is a FAQ about this error on the shorewall site, in the errata section. It's a fine program - easy to set up and effective. Far easier than SuSE firewall2! John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!

On 17 Oct 2002, Dave Barton wrote:

Does anyone know of a good, configurable firewall?

SuSE Personal is not configurable and prevents active ftp, Firewall2 is an abortion, erratically and randomly blocking my internal network, some simple network transactions regularly freeze the whole system. This effectively makes Linux as (if not more) flaky than Windows.

Perhaps you have a problem with something else. SuSEFw2 uses iptables, and I do not see how there could be random blocking of your internal network once the rules have been set. Have you tried creating your own tables? I have not done this with iptables, but I do with ipchains, and it is pretty simple. That said, I have Firewall2 in use on three of my internal machines, as well as the box I use as a gateway/firewall, and have no problems. Kevin

On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 07:50 AM, Dave Barton wrote:

Does anyone know of a good, configurable firewall?

SuSE Personal is not configurable and prevents active ftp, Firewall2 is an abortion, erratically and randomly blocking my internal network, some simple network transactions regularly freeze the whole system. This effectively makes Linux as (if not more) flaky than Windows.

Shorewall won't even install. Adamantly insists that SuSE 8.0 is distributed with kernel <= 2.2

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I gave up attempting to set up iptables/chains on a work station. At the present I have a dedicated machine running Clarkconnect. It is very simple to set up and uses iptables. Just has a very 'novice' friendly interface and web admin similar to the pre-configured of the shelf home routers. Very similar sounding to ipcop.

Circa Thu. Oct. 17, 2002 at 23:50:00 +1100, a lone cry was heard from Dave Barton in the wasteland called the Internet:

Does anyone know of a good, configurable firewall?

I am a long time user of gShield (before SuSE supported iptables) and absolutely love it. Here is the link. http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html Charles -- We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours! (Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan)