Zone Alarm and personal firewalls...

Scott Henderson wrote:
>
> FWIW, I tested Zone Alarm, Tiny Personal Firewall,
> Norton's personal firewall, and a couple of others
> about 6 months ago. ZA and TPF were the only 2 I
> liked, and TPF seems best - for what I want. I
> couldn't figure out how to configure some situations
> with ZA. ZA has a prettier GUI, but I just wanted to
> put in the ports and the addresses and so forth that I
> wanted to control. TPF seemed more straight forward on
> this. ZA is definitely better for someone who doesn't
> know ports and IP fairly well. It puts things in
> friendlier language. (Both are free for personal use.)
>
> I would be interested to know what we have on the Linux
> side of the world that is comparable? That is, a
> firewall that doesn't run on a separate box, but
> protects the system I'm running from.
>

Hi Scott,

iptables.

The firewalls you mention are all application-level firewalls.
Linux has kernel-level firewall capabilities built in. This
feature is much better.

George