On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 19:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Shorewall is a "frontend" to iptables.
> 
> You install both iptables and shorewall.  You read the Shorewall
> documentation and tailor its config files for you needs.  On startup,
> Shorewall will generate the needed iptables commands based on your
> configuration.  Once that is done, shorewall exits and only iptables
> contiues to run.
> 
> Shorewall is text based config files.  There is work (webadmin?) to get a
> GUI frontend to shorewall....but IMHO you don't learn that much about
> security that way.
> 
> Shorewall makes iptables easy.
> 
I had read that it was "frontend", but looking at the different files it
installed lead me to believe otherwise.  I was concerned they may clash
if the both are running.

Thanks for clearing that up!

> Regards,
> Ed
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