SuSEfirewall

['chris']

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

[U.SivaKumar_2]

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

[Mark Grant]

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.

['chris']

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

[Vernon Brown_4 · Accepted solution]

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