setting up nat

[Arun Binaykia]

What's the big deal about shorewall. It claims to be a high level
firewall but as i see one still needs to know about networking,
interfaces,rules,zones etc. 
If you are going to that depth why not just do iptables. It's almost the
same work. It seems that shorewall is just a wrapper of iptables.

I do not intend to flame shorewall users/developers. Just trying to
understand. 

Arun

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Antoine wrote:
> > Thanks for all your comments and help. I installed shorewall and got
> > it configured with a minimum of fuss. I definitely think a tutorial or
> > two might be an idea on the website though...
> > Cheers
> > Antoine
> 
> Excuse me?  What site are you talking about?  Shorewall has got to be
> about the most documented firewall around.  And, if you can get past the
> rough edges, Tom Eastep is the best when it comes to answering questions
> on the Shorewall mailing list.
> 
> http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm#Guides
> 
> Is the best starting place...