On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > Currently I'm using my Win XP Pro system as my gateway to the internet. > Since most of my personal stuff is on this box I would like to move my > RH 8.0 box out front if I can get Tk-pppoe and internet sharing working. > The system works fine now but I don't trust M$ built in firewall. > > I'm a little bit fuzzy on the relationship of these two. Can someone > give me an idea how they interact? Is there a need for both?
Shorewall is a "frontend" to iptables. You install both iptables and shorewall. You read the Shorewall documentation and tailor its config files for you needs. On startup, Shorewall will generate the needed iptables commands based on your configuration. Once that is done, shorewall exits and only iptables contiues to run. Shorewall is text based config files. There is work (webadmin?) to get a GUI frontend to shorewall....but IMHO you don't learn that much about security that way. Shorewall makes iptables easy. Regards, Ed -- http://www.shorewall.net/ for all your firewall needs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
