Re: [Sheflug] Firewalls for SuSE 9.0

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Simon Instone <simon [at] instonenet.com>: 
 
> It does but I'm a bit dubious about 'built in' firewalls. 
> I suppose it's because the 'built in' XP firewall is useless. 
>  
 
I don't know much about win XP  but I think windows firewalls install there own 
kernel packet filter driver.  So zone alarm is different to kerio PF. 
 
AFAIK Linux firewalls all utilise the kernels own packet filtering 
capabailities using the standard user space toolkit iptables or ipchains from 
http://www.netfilter.org  ( does this make all Linux firewalls Turing 
equivalent ? ) 
 
What you get is just a different UI to manipulate those tools. 
  
> The built in SuSE 9.0 firewall seems basic and I'm not sure it's doing  
> it's job.  
  
tail -f /var/log/messages 
may help you there.  You'll see dropped packets logged. 
 
I 
 
AED  
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