On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 15:39, Peter Ruskin wrote:

> I don't like the look of this.  It's very intimidating for those (like me) 
> who don't know much about networking.  Presented with one screen of eight 
> choices and no help, I felt just one click away from danger.

I was just about to post similarly having managed to utterly wreck my
connection and being obliged to urpme iptables and shorewall to allow me
to connect to the Internet again!

I have a _really_ bad feeling about this for new users. As there is very
little time before 9.0 release, unless some sort of miracle can be
wrought, I would prefer if it were dropped (!!) and something like
firestarter* or guarddog** packaged instead. as these do what
tinyfirewall does and more but with help, wizards and so on.

As I see it, tinyfirewall is trying to reinvent the wheel ...

Alastair

* http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/

** http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/


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