Re: Is ipmasq worth it?
i agree. i'm using 2.4 with iptable. one major advantage is the
possibility for a stateful firewall, e.g. allow only incoming
connections that you started. to have full control i just keep a self
written script in /etc/init.d
bye
fabian
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 20:46, JonesMB wrote:
> a long time ago I used to use ipmasq. A few months ago I started using
> iptables after upgrading to a 2.4 kernel. iptables has the advantage of
> having everything in one place, and can both share & protect your computing
> resources. I would recommend going with iptables. before I started
> iptables looked impossible. I found that it is not that hard once you RTFM.
>
> jmb
>
> At 02:36 PM 1/8/02 -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote:
> >Does anyone else have thoughts on this? Many of the example iptables
> >scripts have everything in one file, which would probably make
> >maintaining it much simpler. From what I read, the biggest advantage of
> >ipmasq is that it starts everything automatically for you and without
> >it, you would have to write something to load your rules. I really
> >don't see this as a problem, though, so does anyone have any
> >suggestions? Should I ditch ipmasq and do things manually or learn the
> >ipmasq way?
>
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