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In aus.computers.linux on Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:44:49 GMT
Debbie Seltitz <dseltitz@*no*spam*dipix.com> wrote:
>We are looking to set up a firewall on linux and I would like to get
>some feedback from people who are alrready doing this.  How is it
>working?  Do you have many problems?  I've also heard that there are
>free versions of firewalls. Where would I find this information?  And
>if they are not very reliable does anyone know of a good commercial
>firewall to run on Linux?  Any help or information you can give me
>will be greatly appreciated.

See the TIS "FWTK - Firewall Tool Kit" from Trusted Information
Systems - www.tis.com.  Search on fwtk or Firewall TOol Kit.

As to how easy it is to set up, I have done two of them and
found it easy to do following the documentation, but I can't
say how easy it would be for anyone else.  Depends on how
skilled you are in general concepts, what you know about mail
and web and TCP/IP and DNS.  You don't need to know heaps
but if you know nothing you won't get far.


Whether you use a software solution or the ipfwadm packet filter 
depends on a number of things.  I preferred the software because
oif the logging, if you don't need logging or password authentication
then ipfwadm may be enough for you.

Zebee
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