Bruce S. Skinner wrote: >I've read your ruminations in the shorewall-devel list about the >adoption rate of Shorewall. I wouldn't be so sure that shorewall >isn't getting lots of use. It's part of lot's of distros and "it just >works". I use it on about a dozen machines (and I wouldn't care to >say how many machines are behind those dozen...), because of its >reliablity, flexibility, and it's easy to understand.
It's installed on every Linux box I set up now irrespective of its role. Now I've done a few in different configs, it's almost trivial to set up to control access to a server or whatever - and an important factor, I know it will be simple enough for someone to follow should I not be around (the rules file is quite easy to follow). As for Debian, they have the popularity contest which I believe is supposed to gather stats on what people are running. I don't know how it works, does anyone know if it would pick up something like Shorewall which is only actually executed occasionally but is effectively 'in use' just about the whole time a machine is running ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
