On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 11:56:11 +0100, Oliver Kiessler wrote: > but i think it's about time to have a decent and professional firewall > configuration tool in fedora. that's what i missed about redhat linux > too... what do you guys think? i mean it's not even in redhat enterprise > which suprises me... I think the kind of people (sysadmins) running RHEL will be running iptables on a box that doesn't even have X installed, so gooeys aren't going to be much use to them. In fact the firewall box is probably not even RH/Fedora based at all, but SmoothWall or similar. However, I agree that since Fedora is aimed squarely at the "enthusiast" sector, it maybe is time to include something a bit more adventurous than redhat-config-*. Personally I don't like 'em. Had a bad experience a few years ago, with a gooey that basically wiped out a carefully crafted filter I'd worked on for weeks, and replaced it with meaningless garbage. I haven't tried any recent software, so Firestarter might be fine, I suppose, if you like that sort of thing.
