You can then use something like puppet to manage your configuration scripts. firewallbuilder is overkill if you just need to do something simple though. For simple, you can set one firewall up with ...

Oh and please let me know when MS ships an OS with a REAL firewall, not some pathetic excuse for blocking ports which is refered to as "TCP/IP Security" which requires a reboot to open/close a ...

Linux's iptables allows powerful firewalls to be implemented at a minute fraction of the cost of many commercial offerings. Basic iptables firewalls are packet filters, which means they inspect the ...

This chapter looks at the management of firewalls. From the perspective of the small office/home user, the firewall is a single device that protects the home network from malicious traffic—it keeps ...

I've been writing a multipart series on building a transparent (bridging) firewall using Linux. Specifically, I'm using the distribution OpenWrt running on a Linksys WRT54GL broadband router, a ...

When deciding on a firewall implementation, most Unix-savvy administrators have usually chosen to use ipfilter on OpenBSD for their combination of capabilities and stability, as the capabilities of ...