Which One?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jan 7 08:24:18 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:20 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 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.

I suppose that iptables is actually just a low-level front-end to
netfilter too.

Paul.
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