Tool To Monitor / View Firewall Attacks?

[markmcjr]

Is there a tool that I can use to view / monitor any attacks on the firewall?

What are the must have tools / addons for the security conscious?

[Lightning]

The default system does a pretty good job of blocking any outside attacks. But if you are after even more than that you can install the "snort" package which has extended intrusion detection and blocking capabilities. It does however take some monitoring because it WILL end up blocking sites that you don't want blocked. Such as if you do something like run a port scan from grc.com they will end up blocked automatically and you will have to unblock them manually.

[markmcjr]

[Lightning]