[Devil-Linux-discuss] How about integrating shorewall?

[Marco S. <mar...@cl...>]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this question is just silly, because I did not have a look
at the installation instructions for shorewall. Perhabs it is not that easy
or impossible to enable shorewall just as a package in devil-linux.

Why do I ask for shorewall, when I never had installed it myself?
I had a look at Mandrake MNF, which uses shorewall. Even when MNF is
webbased, I had to edit some files by hand and had a great support from Tom
Eastep, who is developing shorewall. So we had a closer look at the
shorewall-config-files generated by MNF, and I like the easy way to setup
the shorewall without knowing how to write iptables-scripts.

Sorry, I used Devil-Linux long time for different firewalls, but I never
tried to write my own iptables scripts. So I used fwbuilder, but that ended
up uncomfortably, when I had to enable some ports immediately. And when my
boss wanted to have vpn-access to the company's LAN, I decided to replace
the devil-box by a sonicwall.
For home-use I still used Devil-Linux. I love that distribution. By the time
the configuration of my devil-box got unclearly, because I added more and
more webbased monitoring functions. (I know this was my fault). This was the
reason, why I tried MNF, because I liked the out-of-the-box Monitoring, IDS,
MRTG, ...
But always coming back home, I miss my devil-box ;-) and the safe and easy
way of shell-based configuration of devil-linux. It would be helpfull for me
to configure the firewall in the shorewall-way.

Thanks
marco