For all the importance savvy computer users place on computer security, striking a balance between a system's performance and the level of protection provided to it has never been particularly easy.

In this Recipe, I'll explain both the options for firewall protection and the differences between hardware and software implementations. By the end, you should be able to point a client to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

We list the best Linux firewalls, to make it simple and easy to set up and manage a more advanced firewall for your Linux PC or IT network. A dedicated firewall is the first line of defense when it ...

I have a hardware firewall - 2 years old, but no longer being used because the manufacturer (Gsec1) went into liquidation last year & there are therefore no more updates to it released.<BR><BR>It did ...

I've been writing a multipart series on building a transparent (bridging) firewall using Linux. Specifically, I'm using the distribution OpenWrt running on a Linksys WRT54GL broadband router, a ...