Re: firestarter

From: jv (oburk@online.ru)
Date: 05/14/02 

From: jv <oburk@online.ru>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:15:33 +0400

Joe Fredrickson wrote:

> jv wrote:
>
>> Just a quick question. Can anyone tell me how firestarter works. I do not
>> start Iptables on booting, but start firestarter instead. I know that it
>> is using Iptables because I uninstalled ipchains.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Geoff
>
> How it works??
>
> Firestarter would produce a script that lists the iptables rules that need
> to be set, and that script would be run on startup.
>
> Is that what you mean??
Yup.

So in fact Firestarter does what a sys admin would normally have to do
manually?

cheers

Geoff

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