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Source: linux-magazine - Posted by Bill Keys
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The KDE Guarddog program promises an easy Linux firewall setup with just a few clicks. Guarddog helps inexperienced users secure computers – and even whole networks – against attack.
The IPChains (Linux 2.2) and IPTables (Linux 2.4) tools configure the Linux firewall, but these commandline tools can be slightly cryptic for Linux newcomers. Simon Edwards developed Guarddog [1] to simplify the task of firewall configuration. Guarddog is a GUI-based configuration utility for managing firewalls. The Guarddog utility is licensed under the GPL and runs on either KDE 2 or KDE 3.
I am interesting if anyone as used KDE Guarddog and what do you think about it? I normally just manually add iptables from the command line but if this tool makes it easier then I am game.
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