[wellylug] Looking for a easy to use firewall package

[Rob Stockley]

On Monday 21 June 2004 21:16, Glen Ogilvie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been driving myself mad (slowly) trying to find a well designed
> firewall package for a dedicated machine.  I've tried Mandrake Network
> Firewall, but with much luck.
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> Any suggestions?
> Glen

Hi there Glen,

If you're looking for an iptables based gateway/firewall that is a no brainer 
to install and simple to use through it's web interface, perhaps try IPCop. I 
have used this as my firewall for over a year now serving a small 
neighbourhood WLAN. It works well on low spec'ed machines. Installation is 
almost as easy as putting in a CD and rebooting. There is a good (quite busy) 
support mailing list and the developers are actively developing the next 
version. The present stable version is built on a RH base while the next, 
currently beta testing, is based on LFS. The main downer is that there is 
only small built-in support for internal modems. You'd likely have to build 
the drivers yourself. 

http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome

HTH,
Rob