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M_R
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Hello everybody.

 

 

I am currently looking for a Linux firewall that behaves just like Zone Alarm for Windows. I know about firestarter and mandriva's own interactive firewall, but what I need is something that immediately warns me of a program trying to connect to the internet so I can block it, for example.

 

Do you know of any way to achieve this with Linux?

 

 

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To be honest, I’ve never heard of such a program on Linux, although it should be possible to do… Good luck. I’d be interested in an answer too, even if I have no use for it myself.

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Well, I have found two interesting things. But I do require your help because both apparent solutions are beyond my abilities:

 

 

 

1 - http://tuxguardian.sourceforge.net/index.php

 

2 - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099

 

 

Solution 1 seems to be an easy-to-use program, but I didn't find it for Mandriva 2010, and I'm not sure if I can get the dependencies to install it by compiling since I use KDE4 and it requires QT3.

 

Solution 2 is nice, it's not exactly what I expect (that would be solution 1), but I could make do with it if I just understood what it's about.

 

 

Can somebody help me?

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I had a look at TuxGuardian. It seems to be a nice program, and it should be feasible to install it. So… as daniewicz said, “I could try to walk you through option #1. Give me some specific questions.†;-)

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I'm sorry for the incredibly late reply. I "lost" the Linux machine I wanted to try this on, but here I am again.

 

Firewall3d, thank you for your suggestion too. I'll see which of these suits me better.

 

 

Thank you everybody

 

 

 

Update: I'm getting this error when I try to launc lpdflower via terminal:

 

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 14, in <module>

File "/home/wwwwww/Downloads/pyinstaller-1.5.1/iu.py", line 436, in importHook

File "/home/wwwwww/Downloads/pyinstaller-1.5.1/iu.py", line 495, in doimport

File "/home/wwwwww/Downloads/pyinstaller-1.5.1/iu.py", line 297, in getmod

File "/home/wwwwww/Downloads/pyinstaller-1.5.1/archive.py", line 468, in getmod

File "/home/wwwwww/Downloads/pyinstaller-1.5.1/iu.py", line 109, in getmod

ImportError: /home/an/tmp/_MEIwNZ6QB/libstdc++.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZNSt7num_getIcSt19istreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE2idE, version GLIBCXX_3.4

 

 

Any Ideas?

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