- drakconnect is used for the network configuration (local or for the Internet) - drakfirewall will configure shorewall (shorewall.net), so therefore your firewall and allow disallow some traffic - drakgw will simply allow you to use one internet connection for a whole network (masquerade the private network). This also configures shorewall ... but only the masquerading side ...
they are three different tools ... >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Barszus) writes: > Hi! > > Seeing a lot of people with problems with the above, I wonder if there is any > documentation. There should be a documantation what all the apps are doing > and how they are thought to do things and what are the future goals. Further > I don't see 3 apps for the same thing, there should be one app draknetwork, > that should be aware of all this and the goals of that tool should be well > defined and also how the would be reached. This needs to be discussed and > then be implemented. I see this is not something for the upcoming release but > should be kept in mind for future releases. > > Things I see what are needed: > - documentation (too many questions about how all this should work) > - a common dialup framework (the needs of a lot of dial up users are pretty > much the same, the common use of that should be taken in account. Starting a > dialup-connection only as root is not acceptable. Maybe SuSE and kinternet > can give an idea how it should be done). > - a discussion about the needs and how to integrate them all. > > I may have not enough insight in all this but maybe I'm in parts right with > what I said. -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
