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Re: Is ipmasq worth it?



On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:36:40PM -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote:
> My question:
> Is ipmasq really worth using?  It almost seems more difficult keeping
> track of multiple .rul files, plus ipmasq has many .def files that seem
> to set up rules also.  From the looks of it, it seems like it may be
> easier to just set it all up manually myself and have full control over
> everything rather than having to learn to do things the ipmasq way.

That's exactly my experience with ipmasq.
My personal favourite is now ferm (apt-cache show ferm)
It's a language of its own, relatively powerful, which translates either
to iptables, ipchains or ipfwadm (not fully supported iirc) commands
which are executed.

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