PPP dialer

wvdial is a command line ppp dialer which has inbuilt intelligence. During installation wvdial automatically detects modem. It asks only three questions about phone number, username, password (provided by your ISP). wvdial no longer needs chat script to handle the common dialing. You can modify the setting by editing the /etc/wvdial.conf. Below is my /etc/wvdial.conf which I use to dial the account less CLI based Internet connection of the telephone company

Firewall Builder is an object-oriented GUI. It maintains a set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms where policy is a set of rules. Firewall Builder is so powerful that you can set a rule to be automatically expired at a particular time. Installing the package 'fwbuilder' automatically installs other required packages. Like 'fwbuilder-linux' package is fwbuilder policy compiler(s) for Linux kernel firewalls found in the 2.4 and 2.6 series. It creates a shell script to be run during the system bootup process. 'fwbuilder-common' is the arch independent common parts of fwbuilder. From root just execute 'aptitude install fwbuilder' and it automattically installs the required packages. fwbuilder is an advanced level utility for advanced users.