On Feb 19, 2013 9:10 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 18, 2013 8:35 PM, "Tamer Higazi" <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > hi people!
> > I have used all the time "firehol" (gentoo sources 3.3.8) to make my
> > firewall rules. After kernel 3.4.x I can't make use of it any more.
> >
> > Has anyone of you got firehol running on a genoo system with a 3.4.x
> > kernel above to run?
> > And if not, can you adivse me something similiar to build linux firewall
> > rules ?!
> >
> > For a short reply I would thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> > Tamer
> >
>
> I use a fork of firehol, based on Phil Whineray's IPv6 patches...but on Debian. I'll see about getting it working on Gentoo, and let you know. Perhaps I can get it (or Phil's version) into the tree.

Pah! Real Men™ hack iptables rules directly with their hands, not using baby walkers...

LOL, just kidding. What's the firehol fork's name in Debian? I'm interested to see how it looks like now...

(About 4 years ago, these tools are so dismal I created one myself, failed miserably, and just code the rules up by hand.)

Rgds,
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