Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > As to "instant firewalling"; any program which claims to provide instant
> > firewalling is not going to provide well for a lot of cases. Firewalls
>
> You may be suprised. Lokkit seems to be handling all the 'end user' cases
> thrown at it rather well. Certainly it covers home user dialup, screening
> private networks from a host etc
>
> You _can_ do basic firewall setup asking only simple questions. Its just
> tricky to get the questions right
>
Lokkit rocks. I was surprised and disapointed to not see it in 6.2
beta. It covers a very important need because in Linux (like in all
affordable systems) you cannot assume the person in charge is a
professional with years of experience: you have to assume the sysadmin
can be a private individual or an employee of a three person company
who will be caring for the box having only minutes of experience with
Unix. Those people really need software like Lokkit.
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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