On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > specify. I've never quite understood why anyone would go out to program > in a low level when the same job can be achieved easier and more > reliably with a higher language. There are several other firewall rule > generators available.
If you want to learn how something works, programming at a low level is a great thing to do. If you want to "be productive", especially in terms of the amount of time invested in a project, high-level programming is the way to go. So, for firewalling, a business should generally be using a generator of some kind, and never look at the details. A hobbyist would generally benefit greatly from creating rules by hand -- accepting that they will miss out on a lot of the subtelty that a generator will handle. You're both right :-) -jim
