Configure Firewall (Firestarter)

[Jman]

Fedora does have a basic graphical control to the firewall at Main Menu > System Settings > Security Level, but it is limited. I recommend installing Firestarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net), a firewall tool for Gnome.

(TODO: update links)

Firestarter rpms are available at the fedora.us extras repository. The version built for Fedora 1 is at http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/ To update with yum, add or uncomment the fedora-extras repository. Here's the relevant section of my yum.conf:

[fedora-extras]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch - Extra Packages
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable/
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable/
gpgcheck=1
failovermethod=priority

Just run yum install firestarter as root.

Or you could download the rpm and install it, also as root: rpm -ivh firestarter* in the directory you saved it as.

Firestarter should be under Main Menu > System Tools > More System Tools. Run the wizard and you should be set. The documentation is at http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/manual/

[fjleal]

Thanks for the hint! ;)

[wshawn]

Many of us running webservers use APF. I will see about looking for an RPM for fedora.

The link is here (http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php)

[niko]

really good fw,.. easy to configure and with no probs.. :)