Re: Newbie needs some help

From: Andy Fraser (andyfraser31_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 03:28:36 +0100

In alt.linux, natG uttered these immortal words:

> I am in the same boat. We have Fedora (basically the next version of Red
> Hat) and it comes with a firewall which can also be enabled/disabled via
> a gui.

Unless Fedora is radically different from the Red Hat I remember, that GUI
is just another frontend to Netfilter. I can't actually think of any
firewall GUI off the top of my head that isn't a frontend to Netfilter
and/or IPTables in fact. 

-- 
Andy.

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