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Duncan wrote: |
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> "P.V.Anthony" <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg> posted |
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> 470438AA.8040502@×××××××××××.sg, excerpted below, on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 |
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> 08:49:46 +0800: |
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>> I was trying to get the KISS firewall working on Gentoo Hardened amd64. |
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> Personally, I tried a number of different firewall scripts, but wasn't |
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> really satisfied with any of them. Most of them tried to do too much -- |
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> they had all sorts of config options for configuring big commercial |
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> networks, options for shutting off net access to a specific segment of |
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> the internal network at a specific time, for instance. I didn't /need/ |
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> that sort of complex configuration, and it only made things more |
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> confusing, not less. |
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> At the same time, stuff that should have been simple ended up hugely |
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> complex. I was never sure which modules I needed for which options, and |
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> since I was configuring scripts that did the actual configuring of the |
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> IPTables based firewall, when something didn't work, I was never quite |
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> sure whether it was the script, or a bug in the kernel, or a missing |
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> module, or my mistake, or... Well, I'm sure you can identify right about |
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> now! =8^( |
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I have to disagree with this evaluation. In several years, I found that |
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shorewall makes simple things simple, and difficult things I've never |
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tried. My network is really, really simple: a |
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firewall/fileserver/everything with a slightly defective keyboard that I |
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carry a screen to when it doesn't work, plus a number of other computers |
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(one desktop, three laptops, usually) for various family members. The |
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firewall mainly does three things: |
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1) Block everything except a few services from the outside. |
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2) NAT. |
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3) A few direct port forwards to the desktop computer. |
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Configuring this is easy enough in IPTables (I did learn them somewhat, |
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out of interest, though I've forgotten a lot, too), but it's really, |
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really easy in shorewall. |
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In all the years I've used Gentoo now, I can only say that I'm highly |
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satisfied with the program. The only negative point I can find is that |
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it always wants to overwrite all the configuration files on an upgrade. |
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Sebastian Redl |
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