Hello all. First I want to say Antix 8.0 rocks! __{{emoticon}}__
That having been said I have been able (so far) to find only one flaw. The firewall. For the"iptable lame group" this has been a drawback. I have tried to install Guarddog and Firestarter they did not"completely" install. Are their any suggestions out there on a good firewall? Or how to configure firehol? I ran"Sheilds Up" and firehol did not have the"resistance" of Firestarter. Linux rocks!! __{{emoticon}}__

This is a copy of the pop up I get when installing Firestarter:

A proper configuration for Firestarter was not found. If you are running Firestarter from the directory you built it in, run 'make install-data-local' to install a configuration, or simply 'make install' to install the whole program.

And this is what shows up in my console:

/usr/share/themes/Mist/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:6: Invalid symbolic color 'fg_color'
/usr/share/themes/Mist/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:6: error: invalid identifier `fg_color', expected valid identifier

I tried firehol, guarddog, and finally firestarter. I installed it with apt-get and launched it as root. My needs are basic, so i had no problems, ShieldsUp gave me a perfect 'stealth' (all squares green).

# firestarter

This the order i did it:
1. Press the Forward button
2. Checked the box: IP address is assigned via DHCP
3. Forward
4. Next screen, left blank, i got no LAN. Press Forward
5. Check Start Firewall Now - Press Save.
6. From the menu choose Preferences
7. You'll see the status, click on Edit -> Preferences
8. I left Interfaces blank
9. Events -> Skip reduntant entries
10. Policy -> Apply policy changes immediately
11. Firewall -> Start/restart firewall on DHCP lease renewal.
12. Internet connected network device
13. ICMP Filtering
a. check Enable ICMP filtering box
b. Allow the following ICMP packets types
left it blank, did not mark any, the less packages, the more secure.
14. ToS Filtering
I checked the following boxes:
a. Enable Type of Service filtering
b. Workstations
c. Throughput
15. Advanced Options
I checked the following boxes:
a. Drop silently
b. Drop broadcast from external network
c. Drop broadcast from internal network
Press Accept and reboot
this is what it looks in
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3597/3333702137_fa27c75a1e_o.png"
linktext was:"ShieldsUP"
====================================

Got it! The firewall is now up and running all green like yours. I had un-checked some of the repositories (etch). Also, I was installing it in root mode then attempting to start it up in user mode. It does not work that way. Thanks for your help!