I use SmoothWall. (no flames please) - It's a 30 meg ISO - supports 3 nic's (public, private, dmz) - supports modems for dial-up - setup on a P166 with 32 megs of ram is fine and takes about 15 minutes - managed from web interface - has intrusion detection (snort) - Proxy (squid) - VPN capabilities (FreeS/WAN) - SSH - Regular patches which are very easy to install. I have it running in 8 locations and know that its running at another 4 Jim > 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. > > I searched SourceForge but as you might expect I got a lot of hits. One > thing I think I'm seeing is that you configure iptables. I'm guessing > that you can do this by hand or via a GUI. I also looked for a HowTo but > there isn't a firewall or iptables HowTo. > > Even though I still use dial-up (hey I don't have a job!) I think it's > probably a good idea to set up a firewall. > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Jim Streit Partner & Co-Founder NorthLANs Alliance, LLC JimStreit at northlans.com _______________________________________________ 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