On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:20 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:21, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:08 -0500, Gene Poole wrote: > > > I intend to run Core 3 and I need to know what firewall is suggested. I > > > currently use a modified TrinityOS, but I haven't seen anything about it > > > and the 2.6 kernel. > > > > > > Is there a consensus about what firewall to use? > > I guess no, otherwise there would be so many competing implementations. > > I for one prefer shorewall. > > Actually, The wording of this email is wrong. There's no such thing as > what firewall to use. There's only iptables/netfilter for Linux. > > Shorewall/firestarter/guarddog etc are all just front-ends to iptables. I suppose that iptables is actually just a low-level front-end to netfilter too. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
