On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 17:37, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> You'll never find anything that does it better than writing a script by
> hand...

When it comes to something security-related this is so very wrong. Doing
it yourself means you get to make all the same mistakes everyone else
made when they did it themselves. I'll bet you use an early version of
WEP on your wireless network don't you? The people who invented WEP had
the same idea: let's just do it ourselves!

No, If you want to learn iptables, go learn iptables. If you want to
secure a network, use a well-respected peer-reviewed solution. If you
want to do both, experiment with iptables in some safe environment and
then see if you can't contribute something to your favorite
well-respected peer-reviewed project.


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