I agree with Gabriel, I use Shorewall myself and have for sometime before I started running Gentoo. Very robost, great web site with awesome examples and FAQ's, and a great mailing list.
I myself have been told to learn iptables but I let Shorewall do all of this for me. Shorewall is a frontend for iptables meaning that it basically makes the configuration of iptables easy through the Shorewall config scripts. Its always a good idea to learn iptables though. I myself am to overwhelmed learning tons of other things right now to through IPtables into the mix. I would go with Shorewall though if your going to make a choice. Shorewall is very well maintained and kept up to date bug wise. And now that your running Gentoo getting the latest of anything in the linux world is as easy as "emerge <pkg name>".. Hee....Heee.. JBanks --- gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On September 11, 2003 12:17 am, Chris wrote: > > i noticed that there are a few firewalls in portage which do you recogmend? > > i've heard nothing but good things about shorewall, but if you ask me, writing > your own firewall script is the way to go. it's more complicated, but like > gentoo, you understand everything better once you do it yourself. > > -- > in the past we had little to do with other races. evolution teaches us that > we must fight that which is different in order secure land, food, and mates > for ourselves, but we must reach a point when the nobility of intellect > asserts itself and says: no. we need not be afraid of those we are > different, we can embrace that difference and learn from it. > - g'kar, babylon 5 "the ragged edge" > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
