I second that. I've used shorewall for quite some time. I still don't know dick about iptables, but it's pretty trivial for me to setup a simple 'rule' or 'entry' in shorewall's 'rules' file.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Elias Probst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 3:56 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GUI tools for iptables? > > On Sunday 01 July 2007 12:42:33 Paul Waring wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:05:14PM +0800, sain yan wrote: > > > It`s dificulte to me for setup iptables!!! > > > Are there any GUI tools in profiles??? > > > > There are plenty of GUIs out there - just google for > 'iptables GUI' and > > you'll find dozens of tools to help you. However, using > iptables at the > > command line isn't too difficult if you're only doing > simple things like > > closing/opening ports on your machine. > > There's a IMHO really good framework helping you to setup > IPTables without > having to learn the IPTables syntax etc: net-firewall/shorewall > > Regards, Elias P. > > -- > A really nice number: > "09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0" > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
