Re: [slightly OT]: GUI firewall applications in Linux
From: Peter Teunissen (oneman_at_onemanifest.net)
Date: 11/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:31:41 +0100 To: H.S. <hs.samix@gmail.com>
On 28-nov-2005, at 19:02, H.S. wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have managed to convince a friend of mine to try out a Linux based
> machine as a router in the company that he works in. At present, all
> their computers (around 15 or so) run Windows. They have a router (I
> think a consumer grade one) through which they connect their lan
> computers to the internet in some way.
>
> For quite a while he had been complaining about viruses and spyware in
> this computers. So I suggested he install Firefox and Thunderbird and
> train users not to use IE or Outlook, run spyware and antivirus and
> educate users NOT to click on any random links. So far so good. But he
> still has problems about controlling his network traffic and internet
> security. So now I have convinced him to install Debian (or some other
> flavor of Linux) on a machine and make it a jpowerful and fully
> configurable router.
>
> That is the story. Now, I personally have a firewall script (iptables)
> set up on my computer. But my friend is not Linux literate at all
> is not
> going to be confortable with bash scripting and vi editor and iptables
> in the first go. Is there a GUI firewall application for Linux that
> can
> be installed on router computers to deal with with various
> applications:
> web browsing, email, databases: oracle & siebel, or other Windows
> stuff?
>
> I am also thinking about suggesting he use spam assassin to block spam
> coming in or going out. But I haven't touched this subject yet.
>
> My eventual aim is to make him install Ubuntu on a computer or two and
> let him see how well that performs (though he has some applications in
> his company that run on Windows only - need IE).
>
> ->HS
>
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This will be OT^2 but what the heck... I'd advise you to mention
m0n0wall. It's not linux but FreeBSD based and sports a very good
graphical webinterface, is well documented, under active development
and has an active userlist. It's features are close to $ 10k+ Cisco
appliances.
The great part I think is that it looks nice and selfexplanatory (as
far as firewalling can ever be selfexplanatory :-) even to a windo$e
user but still doesn't hide any of the advanced parts of firewalling
as most other graphic software firewalls do. You can learn
firewalling step by step without being to overwhelmed by the dark
side of the CLI or abstract features.
Besides, to a windoze user Unix & Linux all look alike.....
Peter
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