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by james on Thursday 04/Aug/2005, @17:16

Actually, I thought Guarddog was the easiest firewall software I've found in a long time (ever?). I tried several different frontends to generating iptables stuff and I couldnt figure any of it out. None. Then I found guarddog and was instantly impressed. Perhaps I know a bit more about IP, servers and clients than the average person, but anything that was "learning" like you suggested would be a pain. (I've tried ZoneAlarm on Windows and the constant popups about "Internet Explorer is trying to access the internet in the following way:..." just got bloody annoying.

One minor (ok major) problem which might not be guarddog related: I'm on Gentoo and I had their scripts save the IPtables state and reload it when I rebooted. This worked fine when I was behind a router, but now that I'm directly connected to the cable modem, it seems that the saved IPtables state blocks all internet access (while im sure thats very secure its not exactly what i want ;p). I checked that the IP address doesn't change but I cant imagine what other problem would be.

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