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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

It's a minimalistic script for very small installs -- most of us use 
shorewall or agt.  Belxjander made it, and it's not bad for what it's 
intended (deny-as-much-as-possible-while-allowing-outgoing-connections).

I wouldn't dump it unless you talk to him first.

Seth

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:30:34PM -0600, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> I was considering re-vamping my firewall system.
> 
> I noticed a spell called sm-firewall.  However, checking the HISTORY file,
> i can't help but notice that it only had a single submission and that was
> back on 3-30-2003.
> 
> It looks like all it is, is an iptables script.
> 
> Is this spell still viable or should it be removed? It's just that a
> firewall spell that is that old, may be too out of date, or is it the case
> that it doesn't really matter for an iptables script?
> 
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