You keep putting a smile on my face Rodolfo! As soon as someone mentions firewall, NAT, or connection sharing, you jump in with SHOREWALL.
By now I do it partly since it seems to be expected of me. If I don't post the suggestion, I keep waiting for an email saying "Hey... you're the designated Shorewall fanboy, dammit; quit sleeping on the job!"
On the other hand, it's part of my character... I try to reward products/services I see as best-of-breed or exemplary. Server operating system: Red Hat Linux (now Fedora, and if the user can afford it, RHEL-ES). Office productivity: I'm 100% sold on StarOffice 6.0 and eagerly awaiting the chance to try SO-7 (just found out yesterday it had been released). Car rental: Alamo. Notebook computers: Toshiba for most people, IBM if you can afford it. RAM: Crucial. RAID: 3Ware. PDA: Palm or Handspring. Car: Honda, then Toyota, then Mercedes (third because I can't afford it). Guns: Taurus. Wives: mine.
Anyway, back to the point: I do recommend stuff like this VERY often for two reasons: one, I feel comfortable that the recommendation is sound and I value the reputation I build from giving people stuff that works and works well; and two, if he/she comes back with a followup on "how do I use this-here dadblown Shorewall thingumahjig?" I will actually be able to help the poor soul instead of leaving them hanging out on a limb on which I told them to go climb.
Soon you'll have me sold and I'll stop editing my scripts by hand!
Let me know if you need any help with the /etc/shorewall/* config files! <grin>
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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