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On Wednesday 06 June 2007 15:10, John J. Foster wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:35:18AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable |
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> > packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a |
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> > personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so |
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> > this doesn't happen to me again. So I'm interested in |
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> > recommendations. What did you switch to? |
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> I've been using net-firewall/fwbuilder for a few years with no issues. I |
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> also find it pretty easy to use. Plus, it will also write rules for a |
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> Linksys WRT54G running openwrt. |
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I've also tried fwbuilder out (a pain to set up with ssh and what not), but |
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for some reason the naked truth of iptables and a little script I gradually |
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knocked up has prevailed as my chosen method of managing my firewalls. |
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Full transparency as to what goes in and what comes out. |
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PS. I found a pdf manual of fwbuilder somewhere in their website and it was |
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quite detailed and very helpful. Strongly recommended for anyone who starts |
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fiddling with it. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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