Hi, On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:52:49PM +0100, Patrick Useldinger wrote: I've never used guarddog myself, I actually had to look it up on freshmeat as I never even heard about it. For "simple" firewall configuration I use firewall-builder (fwbuilder): http://www.fwbuilder.org/ It features a somewhat CheckPoint-like interface, allows using drag&drop to create the firewall rules, and can compile firewall scripts for several different systems (netfilter/iptables, ipfilter, pf, pix). Of course, you need to know what you're doing - but that's the case for any firewall I'd say. At work, we use it for demos, courses, and actual production configurations (although we use CheckPoint and Cisco for the more serious stuff). Greetings & hth, Eric