Re: shorewall and iptables

[Kevin Fries <Kevin Fries hcico com>]

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Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
| Everyone,
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| Can any of you advise me as to whether shorewall is a good iptables
| frontend or not.  I found it on one of the 'extra' repositories, but did
| not see any discussion of it in the user's group.

I have had mixed results with Shorewall... However, if I need a basic
firewall, or need something up quick until I can fine tune it, its the
first tool I pull out.

There is also a webmin module for it, which makes admin extremely easy.

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Kevin Fries
Network Administrator
Hydrologic Consultants, Inc of Colorado
(303) 969-8033    FAX: (303) 969-8357
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