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Originally Posted by wdhpr
After doing a little reading I found that both guarddog and firestarter are nothing more than GUI's for the built in kernel firewall Iptables. More information can be found here: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Firewall.
*NOTE*
You can have both on your system but do not run at the same time!
Cheers
Wdhpr |
This is true albeit the IP tables are more than adequate for most of us, just difficult to configure for some using the command line hence the GUI's. I believe Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) is flavor of the month as a frontend for IP tables because it's still in development but I found Firestarter better suited my own needs.