[plug] firewalling

[craig at postnewspapers.com.au]

> Personally I hate most GUI configuration type tools for Linux.
Well, with many you're never sure exactly what they're doing...
 
> I'd turn them off and create your own script.  Since you're using a 2.4
> kernel, you might as well use iptables as its far superior than ipchains
> (IMHO anyway).
However, one GUI tool I know of is very good. Fwbuilder is a powerful
interface for creating iptables scripts if you don't want to learn all
the syntax and debug the f**ing things. You keep full control over your
ruleset.

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Craig Ringer
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