From: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
To: David Cary Hart <dch@TQMcube.com>
Cc: Ray Anderson <rsa@prideindustries.com>,
Netfilter Users' List <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Shorewall vs. Iptables
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:21:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402121421.02858.teastep@shorewall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1076624237.3037.26.camel@dchws.TQMcube.com>
On Thursday 12 February 2004 02:17 pm, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 16:56, Tom Eastep wrote:
> > My opinion is far from unbiased but here goes. Shorewall is a high-level
> > tool for configuring netfilter. It uses the iptables utility to do so. As
> > a result, it cannot offer any more protection than the iptables utility
> > used alone can provide.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong but Shorewall only works properly on a
> dedicated box. In other words, if you are running netfilter on the same
> machine as a server then Shorewall doesn't work properly.
You are incorrect.
-Tom
--
Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net
Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-12 21:32 Shorewall vs. Iptables Ray Anderson
2004-02-12 21:56 ` Tom Eastep
2004-02-12 22:17 ` David Cary Hart
2004-02-12 22:21 ` Tom Eastep [this message]
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