On 30 August 2005 15:28, Holly Bostick wrote: > Nagatoro schreef: > > Matt Randolph wrote: > >> I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is > >> different enough to warrant a new thread. > >> > >> I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm > >> product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach myself > > > > Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux > > that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), > > Please anybody, correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik, this assumption that > there are multiple firewall programs in the first place is incorrect.
There are two completely different types of firewalls. One is a packet filter (iptables with all its frontends like shorewall, firestarter et al), the other is an application level firewall which does not work on IP level. While I am not aware of any implementation of the latter one for linux, there might well be one. ;-) Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
