Robert Spangler wrote: > 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. This might be best for my current needs... thanks