Guarddog

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 22 December 2003 10:32 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/22/03 11:55, Tom Wilson wrote:
> > Have you tried fwbuilder?  I've never used it myself but have heard many
> > folks mention good things about it.
>
> I tried it over a year ago, so maybe its changed/improved since
> then,however back then it wasn't to my liking.  It made a lot of silent
> assumptions that blocked things that I didn't want blocked.  Also,
> uninstalling it was a huge PITA.

Yeah, I found it to be quite the PITA. Seems like it'd be a good tool if you 
build firewalls for other people and understand fwbuilder's syntax. But for a 
simpleton like me, who just wants to do a couple specific rules on a home 
system, it's overkill to the nth degree.

Tim

PS I managed to turn off incoming SMTP while screwing around with firewall 
tools yesterday, so I went without list mail for a little while :-(

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