On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > Hello > > I saw two good firewalls: > - Firestarter wich is easy > - Shorewall wich seems versatile > > Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall > worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? > Personally, I think that the effort is worth it for shorewall for these reasons:
1. reading the documentation will give you a much better understanding for what is happening 2. shorewall scales very well to a great many different roles, so your simple one server firewall today might tomorrow be routing traffic for a small network with a DMZ and doing traffic shaping Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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