FW: [Malvern] Recommendations for File Servers

[Richard Forster]

Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Been doing a bit of the ol' surfing this evening and browsing through
> SourceForge - am I completely off the mark or are most of the Firewalls set
> up to be run as dedicated distros - as per Darren's and Stuart P's earlier
> descriptions?  I can't find anything that inspires confidence in a single PC
> scenario.

Firestarter.   http://www.fs-security.com/

It is just a GUI way of configuring IPtables.  Though once set up the 
GUI acts as an event log viewer and easy method of modifying the 
settings. But as the IPtables rules get invoked at boot time you don't 
need the GUI there for normal day to day running.
I expect most if not all other firewall packages are variations on this 
theme. Whilst IPtables aren't that hard to understand when you read 
them, they can be tricky to write from scratch.



Cheers

Rick