On Mon December 31 2007 07:58, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Full discloser time. My day job is with ICSAlabs. My area is security > protocols research (like setttin up the initial IPsec certification > criteria), but when I visit the labs there are all those firewall > products up and running.... So, yeah, I know checkpoint. I talk with the > gang over in the labs about 'simple' firewalls, but there are only > certain things the boss funds here. So then I have to go cheap. While IPTABLES might be CHEAP (price) it is a very good firewall. Learn to set it up from the command line, it isn't that hard. Try the following to learn it; http://iptables.rlworkman.net/chunkyhtml/index.html Forget those GUI interfaces. -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org