[ale] IpTables management?

[n4zm at mindspring.com (zeb)]

Ryan Neily wrote:
> I am really struggling with managing 3-4 firewalls with raw IPTables
> scripts.  They are all driving me mad, and I am getting to the point where
> I am sure that they are not the safest firewall implementations just
> because the Iptable script it so convoluted and LONG.
> 
> Anyways, I am looking at different firewall projects that offer iptables
> functionality through their own implementation.  I've found the Shorewall
> project which looks nice, any others I should look at?
> 
> I'm spending way too much time implementing iptables changes, rather than
> getting actual work done!
> 
While you are looking, include "Coyote Linux".  Runs on almost nothing 
in the line of hardware and comes with IPTables scripts that seem to 
lock things down well.  The only open port is remote login.