On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:07:39AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:04:42AM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > > As for Debian, they have the popularity contest which I believe is > > supposed to gather stats on what people are running. > > Yes. It looks at the atime stamps for stuff that's been run in the > past 30 days; frequency doesn't matter. Also it reports on stuff > that's installed, regardless of usage.
I have shorewall only installed on my firewall/gateway protecting my home network and not on the other linux machines just because I felt that I was "safe enough" and the tradeoff in headaches and over-administration would not be worth it. That firewall is at 112 days' uptime and that is because of a power outage that lasted longer than my UPS batteries. I think I've run shorewall once in that timeframe (other than at boottime) to change a DNAT record. Otherwise, it just works. I don't know if I'm a typical Shorewall user or not. I discovered it in June when I moved and setup my network. It was exactly what I wanted (command-line, no/low overhead) and i haven't looked back since. I will probably get it up and running on my newly-migrated laptop, mostly because of the recent Linux Journal article (which mentioned Shorewall) made the argument many on this list are that "all hosts should have it". I still probably will not install on my RFC1918 desktop, but my laptop, which will head to hotspots and such, probably ought to have a bit better measure of protection. Thanks Tom for a great program, and thank you Shorewall-users for insightful and helpful comments. K -- In Vino Veritas http://astroturfgarden.com
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