Linux Firewalls

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Jeff Welling wrote:

> Happy Monday. Sigh.
> 
> Anyway, I am in the midst of replacing one of my gateways (failed
> hardware) and am just about to go through reinstalling and reconfiguring
> all the various programs and services.
> 
> I've been using arno-iptables-firewall in the Debian repos, and its done
> the job quite nicely, but I wonder if it can be improved upon or superseded.
> So I'm wondering, what do other people use for their Linux Firewalling
> needs, if you don't mind me asking?

  I use the following:

     iptables -F


   Seriously!
      --- Jay 

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