Securing Fedora?

[Kevin Francis]

i find firestarter ... a little flaky under heavy traffic.

just 10 people probing me ( i wanted to test the firewall ), and the 
frontend crashed and burned, and wouldn't load after that.

other than that ... it works great

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Kevin Francis
<http://denial.loose-screws.com/>

Jack Bowling wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:18:11PM -0500, Vanco, Don wrote:
> 
>>fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>>I'm not sure if you know about it...but a good firewall, one that I
>>>use on my Fedora web, e-mail, etc. server is Firestarter.
>>>
>>>http://firestarter.sourceforge.net
>>
>>	Haven't had a chance to look it over yet - but does it offer any
>>hooks into the Fedora iptables "services commands" (saving rules, etc)?
> 
> 
> Firestarter works independently of Fedora's own firewall system but it
> fully utilizes the netfilter/iptables framework. If you use Firestarter,
> you should turn off the Fedora iptables service to allow FS to run
> things on its own.