View Poll Results: What is your firewall of choice?
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Good old IPTABLES
9 50.00% -
GuardDog
0 0% -
Firestarter
4 22.22% -
None...and i also leave my doors unlocked
5 27.78%
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just out of curiosity, what firewall do you use and why?...
- 10-09-2006 #1Linux Newbie
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What firewall do you use?
just out of curiosity, what firewall do you use and why?
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- 10-09-2006 #2Linux Enthusiast
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None of the above, Cisco PIX at the gateway, and other firewalls at the perimeter in conjunction with VLANs.
- 10-09-2006 #3Linux User
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I use firestarter on the debian machine and the SuSE firewall on the SuSE machine. I want to learn to write my own iptables, but my progress has been slow so far.
- 10-09-2006 #4Linux Engineer
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Whatever's in the NAT router.
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- 10-09-2006 #5Linux User
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My routers both have firewalls built in...
- 10-09-2006 #6Linux Newbie
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you've done the poll all wrong. firestarter, guarddog, and others are merely a gui frontend for iptables. almost everyone uses iptables because its standard. i use iptables...plus, i use firestarter as a frontend in order to configure iptables.
Originally Posted by easuter
- 10-09-2006 #7Linux Engineer
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i actually don't use a firewall, and i actually do leave my doors unlocked. btw, to anyone thinking of breaking in, don't bother. i'll find you
Here's why Linux is easier than Windows:
Package Managers! Apt-Get and Portage (among others) allow users to install programs MUCH easier than Windows can.
Hardware Drivers. In SuSE, ALL the hardware is detected and installed automatically! How is this harder than Windows' constant disc changing and rebooting?
- 10-10-2006 #8Linux Guru
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I don't use any firewall and also leave the door unlocked
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- 10-10-2006 #9Linux Guru
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I use Shorewall and the one installed on my router.
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- 10-10-2006 #10Linux Guru
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I run SUSE firewall, and none on my Ubuntu box. My DLink router has a firewall too which I have set up pretty well. Up until running SUSE 9.3 I never bothered but when I started getting SSH bruteforce and dictionary attacks all day I figured better safe than sorry.
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