GUI firewall
Andrey Andreev
andreev at cs.helsinki.fi
Wed Oct 20 13:12:02 UTC 2004
Jeremy Conlin wrote:
> The more I have to use the firewall, the more I get scared because I
> find it very cryptic. I have been trying to enable vnc (see thread
> titled 'enabling vnc') and cannot do it unless the firewall is
> disabled. Becuase I am still new to Linux and can't get completely away
> from my GUI, I need something to help me. I am sure that there is a GUI
> firewall program out there, I just haven't found one yet. Is there one
> that is recommended over another?
I just tried KMyFirewall yesterday, got it off
http://rockerssoft.org/apt/fedora/2/en/i386/RPMS.rockerssoft/
The project's home page (screenshots :)) is:
http://kmyfirewall.sourceforge.net/
Now, it's nowhere as easy as a very basic windows firewall, but it is a
whole lot more powerful.
Note: I experienced some GUI bugs with it, which basically killed my KDE
once or twice. So close your apps and save all important files before
you play with it. :) It's not quite production quality yet, you know,
but it looks promising.
Good luck,
//Andro
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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science
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