Re: [gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 06:17:47PM -0500, Dan Farrell wrote I too am a minimalist but I think you've got iptables misidentified. It has lots of features; that's not the same as saying it's bloated. More like the linux kernel (and in fact it _is_, as others have said, the linux kernel) - it

[gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Walter Dnes
IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of which I required only a small fraction of its functionality. And I'm really

Re: [gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 00:11:36 Walter Dnes wrote: IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of which I required only a

Re: [gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:11:36 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of