more advanced firewall gui

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Are there any other options for a firewall gui for opensuse where you can see exactly what is going on with the firewall? I am finding the yast firewall gui in opensuse 11.4 to be extremely limited. I am not proficient in ip tables so looking for something that would give better control over the firewall rules for a beginner.

Thanks

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your question seems to be two folded:

  1. configuring firewalling rules
  2. monitoring network activity

for firewalling

try FireStarter at Firestarter . it works on Suse and is quite easy and visual.

for monitoring

on console you can install and try
iftop
netstat -atpn
netstat -aupn
lsof -i -n

and for accounting purposes, you can install
ippac (or ippac-ng)