> Anybody who has ever had the grace of managing IPTables on Linux Nowadays few people manage IPTables directly. Long ago I used to maintain my own convoluted

> Anybody who has ever had the grace of managing IPTables on Linux Nowadays few people manage IPTables directly. Long ago I used to maintain my own convoluted scripts (ipfwadm, ipchains, iptables...) but once I discovered Shorewall I never looked back - multi-interface multi-VLAN rounting setups can now be sanely managed from the comfort of very readable configuration files.