Awesome, it looks like iptables and shorewall is the way for me to start
out. I'm sure after getting shorewall down I'll try manual iptable
configuration. Thanks!

As a side note, this is my first time using a news mailing list. Do I
reply to the person's actual email, or reply to
gentoo-security@g.o in responce to the emails I get from my
own posts?

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:32, Matt Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 09:27 am, Pooh Sun Tzu wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >    I have been with gentoo for about 3 months now, but only recently
> > decided I needed a firewall. Don't ask, as I still feel simply not
> > having ports open is just as good as a firewall that blocks them.
> > Regardless, I would love your suggestions on firewalls avalaible for
> > Gentoo. Also, if you could provide a brief explaination instead of just
> > a name, that would make my day much easier. Thanks!
> 
> emerge net-firewall/shorewall
> 
> "Shorewall is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter" (iptables). The 
> configuration files for shorewall are much easier to understand and edit than 
> dealing with iptables rules directly. This is a really nice tool and I highly 
> recommend it.
> 
> http://www.shorewall.net
> 
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> Matt Brown
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