slackware firewall

[dijit]

i installed slackware a few weeks ago and it suddenly occured to me that i probably dont have a firewall by default!

does slackware come with a firewall (distro 9, full) ? I cant say i can find one on here

Or do I need to download one - if so, any recomendations?

[gosam]

slackware does not have any firewalle , personally i use firestarter , it works fine for me.

[ph34r]

I use gShield (http://muse.linuxmafia.org) on my Slack installs...

[X_console]

Slackware comes with iptables, which is all you need to start writing your own firewall rules. If you don't want to take the time to learn iptables however, I'd go with ph34r's suggestion of gShield. I've used it before myself and it's pretty easy to configure.

[malloc]

IMO i think the best you can do is to begin learning about iptables. As far as i know that's what all linux fw use. I think that the linux fw's are just "GUI's" (ok maybe a poor choice of words) to iptables. If i'm wrong plz forgive me i'm just an humble newbie :D
So take a look at http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/howto/iptables-HOWTO.html (iptables how-to)