On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, andre wrote: > On Friday 10 January 2003 20:29, Gerard Patel wrote: > > At 12:01 PM 1/10/03 -0500, you wrote: > > > > 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
drakfw does, it just isn't powerful enough for a machine doing ICS, it's fine for a standard dialup though. > 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 In other words, the problem is not shoreall, but drakfw. PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. It's impossible to fix bugs if people use the wrong descriptio for the problem. > > It may have worked if internet was on eth0 but if it wasn't it didn't work. > Did you file a bug? -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
