On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 19:29 US/Central, Rick Meyerhoff wrote: > IPCop seems to be a Linux distro used to turn a PC into a firewall. > What I want is to just run a firewall on the one machine that I do > everything on. I don't think I really need to have a seperate firewall > but maybe I'm wrong. man iptables > > Troy.A Johnson wrote: >> I have tried IP Cop and it made a P75 into a nice dialup firewall. >>>>> scot+tcluggen at thinkunix.net 09/04/03 05:37PM >>> >> You could start here for some pointers: >> http://thinkunix.net/unix/security/firewalls/ I've heard IP Cop is >> pretty good but I haven't tried it. >> Rick Meyerhoff wrote: >>> The only firewall I have tried on Linux is the one that you can >>> control >>> from the Mandrake Control Center. It's not well-developed enough yet >>> so >>> I'm looking for something better. I have been using ZoneAlarm on >>> Windoze, since it *really* needs a firewall but I'm guessing Linux >>> does >>> things a bit differently. >>> >>> So, can someone recommend a Linux firewall for home/personal use? I >>> would also like to know what's happening "under the hood" so if >>> there is >>> a good, but not too detailed explanation somewhere, please let me >>> know. > > -- > Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff > rick at eworld3.net > 952-929-1659 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens http://us-admins.com/~blutgens/ US Admins, Inc System Administrator / Server Gumby _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list