Re: [Firestarter-user] Config

[Randy <the...@gm...>]

I use to use firestarter clear back in debian sarge.  I went to Anro's 
Iptables Firewall Script when it got unmanageable. With Arno's you only 
have to edit a single config file and start it and you are good-to-go.  There 
is a simple setup dialog, in debian anyway, that takes most of the hard 
work out of it unless you need something special.  Still the config is pretty 
much self explanatory and easy to understand.

Arno is very prompt at trying to help you get it working the way you want if 
you don't understand the config file.  Once the config is set it starts at 
boot and unless your network changes your good.  You can also write 
custom rules for real unique situations.

On the down side there is no gui, but once arno's is setup annd running 
there is no need of it. If you are interested in where your traffic is going 
you might take a look at etherape.

On Sunday, May 31, 2015 01:54:59 PM Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
> Has shorewall improved in any big ways since several years ago?
> 
> Some years ago, I investigated shorewall as an alternative to the
> then-dying firewall configuration tool, named something similar
> to guarddog.  My findings at the time were that shorewall was a
> very thin shim around iptables, so it had very little advantage
> over just writing iptables rules manually.  However, shorewall
> set up a tangled web of interwoven chains/tables that made it
> almost impossible to comprehend, especially without a GUI.  IIRC,
> I switched to FireStarter at that time and for those reasons.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert
> 
> > From: Yusuf Kemal Tengirsek <kte...@gm...>
> > Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 16:48:27 +0200
> > To: "fir...@li..."
> > 
> > 	<fir...@li...>
> > 
> > Thanks a lot, I will try.
> > 
> > YKT
> > 
> > > Le 31 May 2015 à 16:23, J.O. Aho <tr...@in...> a écrit :
> > >> On 31/05/15 15:51, Yusuf Kemal Tengirsek wrote:
> > >> Hi everybody,
> > >> 
> > >> Any suggestion of alternatives ?
> > > 
> > > I have switched to shorewall, no GUI in default, but that works fine 
for
> > > me as I don't need to change that much nowadays.
> > > 
> > > http://www.shorewall.net
> > 
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