Re: Recommendations please - Firewall for desktop Linux station -THX

From: Alan Browne- (alan.browne_at_FreelunchVideotron.ca)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:00:13 -0500

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'll look into the iptables and see
what I learn.

Cheers,
Alan.

Alan Browne- wrote:
>
> Using Mandrake 10.1 as a desktop environment, office, browsing, e-mail,
> ng's, etc.
>
> I'd like to put up a firewall. Recommendations appreciated. Ideally,
> the firewall would detect programs accessing the ethernet and then put
> up an "allow/deny" question box. (Lazy? er, yes.).
>
> I did download Bastion, but for some strange reason the de-archiving is
> taking a very long time... strange behavior... I don't trust it enough
> to install it.
>
> TIA.
> Alan 

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