Also, apparently many Linux distros install a lot of extra "fluff" porgrams, some of which can add vulnerabilities to a firewall as well. Most router distros are stripped down and only use time-tested ...

IPFire is a Linux-based stateful firewall distro that’s built on top of Netfilter. It began as a fork of the IPCop project, but has since been rewritten based on Linux From Scratch. IPFire can be ...

We list the best Linux distros, to make it simple and easy for you to find the one that best suits your level and needs. Many of the most popular Linux distros are designed to appeal to a wide user ...

The Linux kernel includes some of the most powerful and flexible firewall code in any general-purpose operating system. This code is called Netfilter, though most of us refer to it by the name of its ...

WHEN LOOKING for an effective, inexpensive firewall solution, Linux firewalls do not often enter into the picture unless someone involved in the security planning process is a Linux guru. With the ...

As some of you know from my last dumb post about mounting the floppy, I am new to Linux. I would like to learn though the feasibility of setting up a Linux machine as a firewall for a dedicated ...

In today's open source roundup: Six GUI firewall management applications in Linux. Plus: Linux Lite 2.2 released, and the story of how Kali Linux was created The command line is a powerful tool for ...

In this series of articles, I'm showing how to build a transparent firewall using OpenWrt (Linux) running on an inexpensive Linksys WRT54GL wireless router. In Part I, I explained why firewalls are ...

It's no doubt that one of the leaders for network equipment is Cisco Systems. Newer Cisco devices are starting to use what Cisco calls its "="" operating="" system"="">, which is a customized flavor ...

Like many Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS, Ubuntu has a firewall. This security feature can prevent connections from ...