On Friday 10 January 2003 20:29, Gerard Patel wrote: > At 12:01 PM 1/10/03 -0500, you wrote: > >ShoreWall is (IMHO) awful. I install it only because I > >think it was required by some other package, but I > >"chkconfig --del" it, and keep a copy of Bastille rpms > >handy to do the job. > > My guess is that Mandrake switched to Shorewall because > the config files are way easier to change by program. > Also Bastille is doing additionnal security that could conflict > with other Mandrake software, while Shorewall does only > one thing, network.
Can be true but there was no program to change the config files > > This said, I was liking Bastille-firewall well, but after using > Shorewall for some time, I have come to find its config files > more logical and easy to change than the Bastille ones. > Did you really try to learn Shorewall ? Many people are > just refusing novelty. You didn't need to read the help files to make it work, with shorewall you did need to read them which is not good enough for a firewall config program because if i wanted to do it good i wouldn't use shorewall > > I have only tested one time the connection sharing (I have > only one Windows machine behind my Linux box and I don't > think that this OS deserves a place on the Internet) during the > 9.0 beta and it basically worked (the only problem was that the > damn thing can't be switched off). I have no idea if it works with > current Cooker. > > Gerard It may have worked if internet was on eth0 but if it wasn't it didn't work.
