Which One?

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Fri Jan 7 03:20:25 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:21, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:08 -0500, Gene Poole wrote:
> > I intend to run Core 3 and I need to know what firewall is suggested.  I
> > currently use a modified TrinityOS, but I haven't seen anything about it
> > and the 2.6 kernel.
> > 
> > Is there a consensus about what firewall to use?
> I guess no, otherwise there would be so many competing implementations.
> I for one prefer shorewall.

Actually, The wording of this email is wrong. There's no such thing as
what firewall to use. There's only iptables/netfilter for Linux.

Shorewall/firestarter/guarddog etc are all just front-ends to iptables.


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