On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 20:55 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > Michael Pobega wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:11:26AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote:
> > >> Am Mittwoch, den 25.04.2007, 15:05 -0400 schrieb Celejar:
> > >>> Well, on this list our (including me) favorite firewall is
> > >>> Shorewall,
> > >> Well, is it? Mine's IPCop, though.
> > >> 
> > > 
> > > iptables here. It's a little bit tough to set up, but in the end it's
> > >  worth it in my opinion. Once you get used to the way iptables works
> > > you can build a firewall for any system.
> > 
> > IPtables is *the* Linux firewall. Most of the other things people are
> > discussing here are higher-level tools designed to configure the
> > kernel-level IPtables stuff.
> > 
> 
> Okay, I guess I didn't make that clear.
> 
> I mean "plain old vanilla iptables". I prefer to learn the inner
> workings of the program rather than use an interface to try to figure
> things out.
> 
> And from what I've seen from some graphical firewalls, there are some
> precise things that you just can't set up without the use of the
> iptables command. But I guess that's the only REAL advantage using
> iptables without an interface has.

fwbuilder makes plainly readable IPTABLE scripts. It works awesomely.

It also makes some nice functions and other things nicely.
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