Lunar and Shorewall [was: connection-speed throttled?]

[Remco Lubbers]

Op Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:25:47 +0200 schreef Auke Kok aan Remco Lubbers
<rpl at concepts.nl>,Lunar general discussion list <lunar at lunar-linux.org>:

> hope this helps... please check your shorewall as I think it makes your 
> life more complicated than you want to... perhaps you should get rid of 
> it and get a real firewall anyway ;^)

In addition to shorewall being very configurable as a firewall, it solved
another problem for me that I had with Lunar: you can add aliases to your NIC,
single IP's or range(s):
http://shorewall.net/Shorewall_and_Aliased_Interfaces.html#id2805902

This way you can add and remove IP's to/from your NICs without having to
restart your server (since restarting the network looses the gateway).
So IMHO shorewall is a useful addition to lunar-as-is ;-)
Takes a lot of work off your hands without taking over control, like the
lunar-tools :-)

Remco

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