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<blockquote data-quote="HeffeD" data-source="post: 14249" data-attributes="member: 61">I believe most desktop and server distros come with IPtables in some form or another.But like you mention, the firewall isn&#039;t always on or very user friendly which is where the front-ends such as UFW come in. PCLinux comes bundled with Shorewall to configure your firewall.Kubuntu has UFW in their repositories of course.CentOS allows you to enable the firewall during setup, then you can configure it with the Security Level Configuration Tool.OpenSuSE has the yast2 firewall in their repositories. I can&#039;t remember if this comes bundled with the distro or I downloaded it later. Mint has UFW in their repositories.Mandriva has the Invictus firewall. Like OpenSuSE, I can&#039;t remember if this was something I downloaded later, or if it is bundled with the distro. Fedora has a system configuration GUI allowing you to adjust the firewall directly from your system configuration.Debian gives you a lot of options. You can install Firestarter, UFW, or Shorewall from their repositories. (I&#039;m using Firestarter because I hadn&#039;t used it before...) If you download the KDE interface, there are a few other options available to you, such as GuardDog and kmyfirewall.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeffeD, post: 14249, member: 61"] I believe most desktop and server distros come with IPtables in some form or another. But like you mention, the firewall isn't always on or very user friendly which is where the front-ends such as UFW come in. PCLinux comes bundled with Shorewall to configure your firewall. Kubuntu has UFW in their repositories of course. CentOS allows you to enable the firewall during setup, then you can configure it with the Security Level Configuration Tool. OpenSuSE has the yast2 firewall in their repositories. I can't remember if this comes bundled with the distro or I downloaded it later. Mint has UFW in their repositories. Mandriva has the Invictus firewall. Like OpenSuSE, I can't remember if this was something I downloaded later, or if it is bundled with the distro. Fedora has a system configuration GUI allowing you to adjust the firewall directly from your system configuration. Debian gives you a lot of options. You can install Firestarter, UFW, or Shorewall from their repositories. (I'm using Firestarter because I hadn't used it before...) If you download the KDE interface, there are a few other options available to you, such as GuardDog and kmyfirewall. [/QUOTE]

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