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From: Marco S. <mar...@cl...> - 2003-01-31 21:05:59
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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 |