i agree. i'm using 2.4 with iptable. one major advantage is the possibility for a stateful firewall, e.g. allow only incoming connections that you started. to have full control i just keep a self written script in /etc/init.d
bye fabian On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 20:46, JonesMB wrote: > a long time ago I used to use ipmasq. A few months ago I started using > iptables after upgrading to a 2.4 kernel. iptables has the advantage of > having everything in one place, and can both share & protect your computing > resources. I would recommend going with iptables. before I started > iptables looked impossible. I found that it is not that hard once you RTFM. > > jmb > > At 02:36 PM 1/8/02 -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > >Does anyone else have thoughts on this? Many of the example iptables > >scripts have everything in one file, which would probably make > >maintaining it much simpler. From what I read, the biggest advantage of > >ipmasq is that it starts everything automatically for you and without > >it, you would have to write something to load your rules. I really > >don't see this as a problem, though, so does anyone have any > >suggestions? Should I ditch ipmasq and do things manually or learn the > >ipmasq way? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
