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Re: Is ipmasq worth it?



On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Florian Friesdorf wrote:

> 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.
>

Does it produce a good iptables ruleset?

For instance: does it use basic iptables-only features such as stateful
filtering?

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Tzafrir Cohen
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