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Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall



On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I saw two good firewalls:
> - Firestarter wich is easy
> - Shorewall wich seems versatile
> 
> Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall
> worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall?
> 
Personally, I think that the effort is worth it for shorewall for these
reasons:

1. reading the documentation will give you a much better understanding
for what is happening

2. shorewall scales very well to a great many different roles, so your
simple one server firewall today might tomorrow be routing traffic for a
small network with a DMZ and doing traffic shaping

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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