[Shorewall-users] New User - How does Shorewall work?

Jeremy Mereness
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 06:27:13 -0000

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