Re: firewall

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 10:53:00AM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 7/4/12 10:46 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > Web base Firewall (IPCOP) very powerful with the addon called BOT
> > (block out traffice) base on IPtables.
> 
> In some ways it's easier just to work with IPtables directly.

Except on Debian you are required to do a fair amount of work to make
your rules persistent across reboots and ensure you get ordering right
to not lock yourself out of the box (if remote): all problems that
do not exist if you install and use ufw.