Re: FN-FORUM: Linux Firewall

date posted 9th April 2007 11:23

Adam

If you only intend to use the machine as the firewall, I'd say trash
the OS, and install a dedicated firewall distro. If you ain't an
expert in linux config, it deals with killing all the ports, not
including all the major utills that are known weak points etc.

although we mix hardward and linux firwalls here, I have found that
ipcop does a damn good job.

Hope it helps

Nathan

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At 00:05 09/04/2007, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am new to this area so you will have to bare with me.
>I currently have a PC with Fedora Core 2 installed. I want to use it as the
>firewall for my network, not DHCP as that is given out elsewhere.
>
>What's the best program to use to achieve this?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated as I said I am new to this area of
>linux.
>
>
>
>Kind Regards
>Adam Tuffin
>
>
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