Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo

2005-11-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > James, > > Why are you using IPtables directly? It's good for an exercise, but > roll-your-own firewall is not really as cool as it seems. Have you looked at > Shorewall [net-firewall/shorewall]. Its useful to know how iptables works when things g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
James,   Why are you using IPtables directly?   It's good for an exercise, but roll-your-own firewall is not really as cool as it seems.  Have you looked at Shorewall [net-firewall/shorewall]. http://www.shorewall.net thanks,   joshua On 10/28/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A. Khattri bw

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo

2005-10-28 Thread James
A. Khattri bway.net> writes: > > /etc/init.d/firewall is the default file where where you put your rules you > > have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet your specific needs. > Not sure where this script came from - it doesn't come with iptables. You are right, as it seems a ver