Linux firewall

[fernandez]

Does anyone know of a firewall for Linux similar to ZoneAlarm?
There are many IP tables based firewalls, but I'm looking for something that allows port blocking to be soft coded, i.e. ports open and close based on programs that run at the moment.

[cpugeniusmv]

Originally posted by fernandez
Does anyone know of a firewall for Linux similar to ZoneAlarm?
There are many IP tables based firewalls, but I'm looking for something that allows port blocking to be soft coded, i.e. ports open and close based on programs that run at the moment.

i doubt it.

most linux users are hardcore, and like to do it the hard way.

[thunderrooster]

Yeah there is some firestarter is one http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/ there is guarddog and 2 others i think for linux software check out tucows http://linux.tucows.com/ here is the page it tells you if they are graphical or not http://linux.tucows.com/firewall_default.html

[fernandez]

Originally posted by thunderrooster
Yeah there is some firestarter is one http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/ there is guarddog and 2 others i think for linux software check out tucows http://linux.tucows.com/ here is the page it tells you if they are graphical or not http://linux.tucows.com/firewall_default.html

Thanks, I'll take a look.

[strestout1]

i second the firestarter thing, it's pretty good, though i recently got rid of it because i found a tutorial on using IPTABLES...google for that so u don't need to DL anything extra...if anything i'll post my iptables config.