Request: Link to a FAQ

Hi all, Can someone point me to a FAQ or HOW-TO on setting up a SuSE 8.1 box from scratch to be a fairly secure firewall with VPN? How is the standard SuSEfirewall2 compared to the commercial firewalls like CheckPoint or Cisco PIX? Complete rubbish or when it's set up properly is it good enough to protect a hosting environment? Thanks for the info, Ton.