Comments on: Learning IPTables http://www.sourceguru.net/archives/94 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Segedunum http://www.sourceguru.net/archives/94#comment-13844 Segedunum Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:56:54 +0000 http://www.sourceguru.net/archives/94#comment-13844 Yep. I'm certainly familiar with IP tables, but quite frankly, I can't be bothered these days. Shorewall makes it much easier, and it's a whole lot more logical to be able to say "I want to give this network access to this network" in a config file. Yep. I’m certainly familiar with IP tables, but quite frankly, I can’t be bothered these days. Shorewall makes it much easier, and it’s a whole lot more logical to be able to say “I want to give this network access to this network” in a config file.

]]> By: Mikkel Høgh http://www.sourceguru.net/archives/94#comment-13843 Mikkel Høgh Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:30:11 +0000 http://www.sourceguru.net/archives/94#comment-13843 A piece of advice - use Shorewall: http://shorewall.net I was in the same situation as you a few years back, and although IPtables is not hard to learn, a ruleset quickly becomes unmanageable. Shorewall allows you to use normal configuration files and is much easier to set up - but still allows me to use all of IPtables' strength. A piece of advice - use Shorewall: http://shorewall.net

I was in the same situation as you a few years back, and although IPtables is not hard to learn, a ruleset quickly becomes unmanageable. Shorewall allows you to use normal configuration files and is much easier to set up - but still allows me to use all of IPtables’ strength.

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