On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 00:25 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 10:27:22 pm Miles Brennan wrote: > > > The shorewall package is an application designed to assist users in > > configuring iptables, in fact the structure of the files from what I > > have seen, mimic the iptables scripts to some extent. > > Exactly. > I found it quite difficult to set up iptables directly > (this was before I read your HOWTO!) > and more importantly I had no confidence > that my iptables gave me reasonable security. > > I'm not sure, as I said earlier, > to what extent shorewall has become the standard way > of setting up iptables. > But I certainly think, if you are lazy like me, > that it saves a lot of brain cells. To whatever extent is possible, it would be good if the HOWTO used system-config-firewall, since that's the new and future tool. If you find places where s-c-fw falls short, you could file an enhancement bug or two. :-) Shorewall is in the repositories too, so you're good to go there. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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