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