On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:01:46PM +0100, Colm Buckley wrote:
> Hand-crafting iptables rules is a mug's game. Use Shorewall and save
> yourself a lot of pain and bother.
>
I would if I was starting from scratch today. At the time I slapped that
together, the packaged scripts were vastly overkill for what I needed
and very flaky. As I had a more complex setup on another site, it was a
cut&paste jobbie.
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Mel Gorman
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University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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