Top 5 open source Firewall

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faruqkhan
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Top 5 open source Firewall

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there are cool open source firewall to take advantage of. Open source firewall not only offers better customization options, but also reduces the cost of ownership
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/arch ... -firewall/
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No doubt these have goo gui and ease of use but

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Thanks for the post.
No doubt these have good gui and ease of use but the granularity, degree, level of control with raw iptables/netfilter at cli/shell can never be seen anywhere else.
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Post by farhanksa »

Best tutorial I have seen so far is
http://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/
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