On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:25:12 +0100 Andreas Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I just want a working firewall. > And firestarter does this job. > I do not know about complex setups with multiple servers. > I am just using one server, client etc at the time. > The firewall shall protect one computer at a time. > And so I use firestarter everywhere. > I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall. With firestarter? How? > If I have a pure debian server without gui, it takes > ca. 70 MB extra space to install firestarter + gui bla bla. > Then I can use the firestarter gui to setup. 70MB is *huge* amount of data to install *only* to have a gui. IMHO firestarter is only useful if you already have X installed, though this is a bad idea on a server. > But I do not know, if shorewall is better or worse. Shorewall is very easy to setup. Please see: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Firewall_with_masquerading Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
