Firewalling utilities

[foodog@qwest.net]

  I've used Mason on 2 boxes and it seemed to lock things
down pretty well.  My main gripe is that I ended up with
huge unwieldy scripts after letting it do it's learning.  I
still "haven't found the time" to learn IPchains syntax
(yes, I know that's lame).

  I've downloaded but haven't fscked with a GUI (web?) based
tool called Firestarter, you might check on that.  I also
saw (yesterday?) that there's a beta of a GUI firewall tool
from Mandrake, which I think is the paying home of Jay
Beale, Bastille guy.  I expect that's worth looking into.

  I'd search on linuxtoday.com for more candidates.  

BTW, if you're using portsentry you owe it to yourself to
try out logcheck.

Steve
Donald Martinez wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have any experience using mason when setting up a firewall?
> I was wondering if anyone had any experience using it or had some
> recommendations on some good utilities on setting up a good firewall. I
> have snort, and portsentry and am looking for any other utilities that
> would be good for protecting against my webserver.
> 
> I understand that a poorly setup firewall is worse than not having one
> at all and with that being said any input would be greatly appreciated
> :)
> 
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