topic Re: SuSEfirewall in Operating System - Linux

SuSEfirewall

'chris' — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:00:23 GMT

hi

can I use professionally SuSEfirewall for the internet webserver ?

or is it better to build the firewall by myself for example with iptables ?

what's your opinion about SuSEfirewall ?

kind regards
chris

Re: SuSEfirewall

U.SivaKumar_2 — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 01:50:35 GMT

Hi,

SuSefirewall is a firewall rule generator tool. which is based on iptables firewall only . rule generator tools simplifies the firewall configuration tasks.

your idea of building a new firewall is nice.

regards,

U.SivaKumar

Re: SuSEfirewall

Mark Grant — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:12:48 GMT

I almost agree but am not too sure.

If you are not too experienced at firewalling and the system is "critical" then I might be tempted to go for the SuSE product as it will help you should you miss things out.

Otherwise I'd suggest you do it yourself. You'll know it better and you'll be able to apply that knowledge to any Linux system.

Re: SuSEfirewall

'chris' — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:40:46 GMT

thanks everyone,

but knows someone,
where can I find the newest SuSEfirewall
software to download ?

if someone can post a link, I'll be very happy.

greetings
chris

Re: SuSEfirewall

Vernon Brown_4 — Sat, 01 May 2004 06:32:26 GMT

I tried SUsE for my internet server running Apache; never did quite get the SuSE firewall working exactly right. After a couple of days of frustration, I decided to switch to Fedora Core 1 (9 bucks from cheapbytes.com) which I'm now setting up.

My vote would be to go with IPtables; probably because of my bad experience with SuSE firewall. You can get lots more help with IPtables.

Good luck !!!

Vern