Linux is highly secure, but you should still have a firewall. You should know if your ISP's hardware (gateway) uses a firewall. One of the easiest Linux firewalls is UFW and its GUI sidekick, GUFW.

My company is replasing their Lynksis router with a somewhat better solution. I was given a task to propose a Linux based firewall.<BR>Currently we have cable modem WAN connection, but in the near ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Keeping your home network safe has never been more important, given how much of our lives and finances are on our digital devices. I've toyed with the idea of building my own custom hardware firewall ...