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
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