Cause I'm lazy.
Anywhoo, Shorewall is an iptables firewall frontend, so that's cool.
I think that it will help ease the process and understanding of setting up system firewalls, although one should still know a bit about iptables and general networking.
I recommend that you learn about iptables, the raw iptables userland program and how to use it to set up rules and forwarding and blocking and whatnot. Then, armed with your knowledge, you setup Shorewall to easily maintain your hardened system. The order is important. Don't setup a shorewall instance until you know what it does (or doesn't do). Be safe(r).
News about apps in a couple of days once I sort out a couple of bugs in Power Manager and SoftGlow.
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