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Re: Restricting Internet Access



On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:21:13 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:

...

> I disagree on the last point.  It could simply be an incompatibility
> between Shorewall and I.  I find the RAW iptables rules clear and
> rational, I don't see the need to obfuscate them.

Fair enough - to each his own, I guess.
 
> Also, it doesn't matter on modern desktops, but my iptables ruleset
> is significantly smaller than the equivalent Shorewall iptables
> ruleset.  That saves kernel memory (a miniscule amount) and CPU time
> per packet.

I had thought that you might have something like this in mind - after
all, there are still people who prefer to code in assembler, since it
can yield smaller, tighter code ...

;)

Celejar
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