YaST VS Shorewall

YaST

YaST is the installation and configuration tool for https://alternativeto.

Shorewall

The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as “Shorewall”, is high-level tool for configuring...

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Categories	Time Tracking OS & Utilities Personal Finance Tool
Website	en.opensuse.org
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Categories	Cyber Security Firewall OS & Utilities Perimeter Security And Firewalls
Website	shorewall.org
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Shorewall sobre CentOS 7.7

Category Popularity

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Shorewall

Time Tracking

100 100%

Time Tracking

0% 0

Monitoring Tools

0 0%

Monitoring Tools

100% 100

OS & Utilities

62 62%

OS & Utilities

38% 38

Cyber Security

0 0%

Cyber Security

100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Shorewall seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 6 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

YaST mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of YaST yet. Tracking of YaST recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Shorewall mentions (6)

DHCP is not blocked by ufw/iptables
All mentioned items have side-channel borked firewall and route rules in the past. Some bugs intermittently silently block local daemon instances from (re)loading like magic (some bugs only happen when the system is brought up). If your daily tasks include something less borked, than consider yourself very lucky you live without systemd. If I recall, ufw was intended for simple workstation rule sets. Personally,... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
Life After Shorewall: Replacement Options?
I've been using Shorewall for the last decade or so on everything from custom OpenWRT firewall/gateway solutions to servers running Debian or Ubuntu. It's great software that makes managing iptables/netfilter a breeze. Alas after many years, Mr. Eastep has retired and it doesn't appear the project is maintained by a new person or team. Source: 12 months ago
Tunneling private networked host to the internet through public-facing server?
Shorewall (https://shorewall.org/) can do the job easily. Source: over 1 year ago
How to hairpin a whole network segment?
Despite administrating Linux machines since 1994, I have never really looked closely at iptables because I was using shorewall and the briefly firehol. Source: over 1 year ago
dog: An open source firewall management system for packs of firewalls (iptables)
You should just use https://shorewall.org/. Source: almost 3 years ago