On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Gordon Campbell <gordy2007@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for all your advice. So far I am enjoying my experience with Arch Linux since I changed my Distro over from Fedora about a month ago.

Just one more opinion, it can't hurt :) I myself don't need a firewall beyond my router, but if I was in need of one, I would certainly use Firehol [1]. It is a clever bash script that pretends to be like a high level language for definitions of a firewall. When the system is booting, the script is converted to the real iptables rules. It may be a little less efficient in boot time, but the flexibility and elegance of the definition language pay it very well, IMHO. So, hope that helps you. [1] http://firehol.sourceforge.net/ -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------