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From: Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@xs4all.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:21:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4666C2EE.6080109@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706061456170.6775@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt>

Jorge Almeida wrote on 06/06/07 15:59:
>> That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable
>> packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a
>> personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so
>> this doesn't happen to me again.  So I'm interested in
>> recommendations.  What did you switch to?

I use fwbuilder.  It's a drag and drop iptables front-end which builds
firewall scripts.  fwbuilder works very well once you've figured out
defining and manipulating your firewall objects.  The documentation is
very sparse.

It does miss the immediacy of the firestarter GUI though.

Cheers, Dave
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06  3:39 [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter? Kevin O'Gorman
2007-06-06  3:54 ` Dale
2007-06-06  4:07   ` [gentoo-user] " Ali Polatel
2007-06-06 13:35   ` [gentoo-user] " Kevin O'Gorman
2007-06-06 13:59     ` Jorge Almeida
2007-06-06 14:21       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-06-06 14:03     ` Ken
2007-06-06 14:10     ` John J. Foster
2007-06-06 18:47       ` Mick
2007-06-07 16:25         ` David Snider
2007-06-06 16:55     ` Dale
2007-06-14 20:19     ` Roy Wright
2007-06-15  6:52       ` Mick
2007-06-15 11:52       ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-06-06  8:07 ` Alan McKinnon

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