Hello! My hardware firewall has crashed and i'm planning to set up a linux firewall on a 386. I have no experience of linux firewalls so what i am asking is if anybody out there has any good experience with different software firwalls for linux and could recommend one.
With Regards // Phoscy
I can't help with Linux (I'm a noob with it), but if you spend about $50 you can get a Linksys router that provides NAT for Cable/DSL connections and it will protect your linux box and your other computers until you learn enough to really secure them.
Depending on how difficult of a setup you have you can use arno's iptabels script which will be easy to set up for a n00b. Also the checkpoint SPLAT install is a redhat install with the checkpoint software on it and has a nice easy gui to use. But if you are only talking about two nics the arno's is free.
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If he wants he can also give a try to our bastion-firewall GPL software. It's very easy to config and use, and it supports any number of interfaces.
Regards.
If you are a "noob", I suggest you try the smoothwall distribution.
If you want to have a really rock-solid firewall, you would do well to spend some time reading at
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