What is wrong with firestarter?

[Carlos Alberto Alves]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> 
>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>> Is it correct that, if I just want to configure my firewall once and for
>>> all, I could just install Firestarter (or one of the alternatives), do
>>> my settings and, if my settings are good, uninstall Firestarter (or the
>>> alternative) and never have to use it again, unless I have to change my
>>> settings?
>> In a way yes. However, when you uninstall firestarter you would normally
>> also remove the scripts /etc/init.d/firestarter and
>> /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh which sets up the package filtering at
>> boot time.
> 
> You can however, you "iptables-save" before uninstalling firestarter or
> other gui (it might even use it, itself), remove the firewall gui, then
> setup an initscript to run iptables-restore at every boot.

Guarddog can do this without being run every boot.
;-)
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