Recommendations on firewall

[brendangriffin]

Hi,

I'm quite new to linux and i'm looking to setup a test server to act as a firewall/proxy server.

Are there any packages that you could recommend me to acheive this.

Thanks

Brendan

 

[danielhozac]

[tt]iptables[/tt] is the best firewall software I have used and [tt]squid[/tt] is good for a proxy server. //Daniel

 

[axman505]

CHeck out

http://www.shorewall.net

Tom Eastep wrote and excellent iptables firewall. It works great, I love it.

 

[axman505]

hmm .. the website is

http://www.shorewall.net

Not quite sure what happened to it in the post above .....

 

[Norwich]

Another one to look at is astaro.com

V Good.

 

[Norwich]

Oh, and also smoothwall.org

 

[bluegroper]

Definitely IpCop.
See

http://www.ipcop.org

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