On Wed, 5 May 2004, David Fokkema wrote:
> > Basically, this means that every linux based firewall, whether it be > graphical point-and-click interfaces, or script generating firewalls or > whatever, they all use iptables to install their rules into the kernel. > Thats not true. There are some closed-source Firewalls out there (e.g. Checkpoint FW-1) which have their own filters. What you mean is, that many of the GUI/script firewall Implementations (e.g. SuSEfirewall, firehol, firestarter, astaro, etc) are just frontends for iptables/netfilter. Yasar
