Shorewall users - Mar 2003 - New User - How does Shorewall work?

Forgive me if I''m new to Shorewall, but is Shorewall a wrapper around
IPtables and other net-related facilities of Linux? I''m accustomed to
setting up IPtables by hand, so I''m guessing if I were to start using
Shorewall, I would blow away anything I''ve been doing up til now.

Do I have it right? Shorewall rules are ultimately reduced and implemented as
IPtables instructions?

--j

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Jeremy Mereness wrote:
> Forgive me if I''m new to Shorewall, but is Shorewall a wrapper
around
> IPtables and other net-related facilities of Linux? I''m accustomed
to
> setting up IPtables by hand, so I''m guessing if I were to start
using
> Shorewall, I would blow away anything I''ve been doing up til now.
>
> Do I have it right? Shorewall rules are ultimately reduced and
> implemented as IPtables instructions?
>
Yes.

-Tom
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