configuring iptables

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 13:56:41 +0000,
  Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> I must say, as a shorewall user, I am surprised
> at the complication of the resulting iptables,
> which makes me think it must be rather difficult
> to set up iptables without using an extra program like this.

If you understand a bit about networking it isn't hard to write a set of
rules for iptables. I would say it is more tedious than complicated.