[ILUG] iptables woes

[Niall O Broin]

On Friday 9 April 2004, colm at tuatha.org (Colm Buckley) wrote:

>On 9 Apr 2004, at 17:43, cian at medialabeurope.org wrote:
>
>> I can't recommend Shorewall enough
>
>Seconded in spades, with bells on.  Shorewall is wonderful - great for 
>those occasions when you don't want to sacrifice a whole server to 
>Smoothwall.  I think it's better than smoothwall in any case.

Aren't they rather different things though? Smoothwall CD + some old box
= a nice little access box for a small office with a DSL connection,
whereas Shorewall is just :-) an iptables generator. I have a smoothwall
box with I'm very happy, but it has its limitations. I have another box
beside it which has SuSE with SuSEfirewall, which I intend to replace
with a Deb+shorewall box RSN as I've heard nothing but good about
Shorewall.


Niall