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To agree, please show me where in Slackware is the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall mentioned on the init scripts. Even as example.
As by /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2
Code:
# If there is a firewall script, run it before enabling packet forwarding.
# See the HOWTOs on http://www.netfilter.org/ for documentation on
# setting up a firewall or NAT on Linux. In some cases this might need to
# be moved past the section below dealing with IP packet forwarding.
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall start
fi
Just because there are no default rules doesn't mean there are no firewall or documentation to make them
Just because there are no default rules doesn't mean there are no firewall or documentation to make them
Excuse me, but is not obvious that there is no firewall, because there are "no default rules" customizable or not, even as examples?
Yes, the Slackware gives me the tools (iptables and nftables) to build a firewall (script) and sends me for further reading on http://www.netfilter.org/ for writing it myself if I want one.
In other words, Slackware tells me: "Go there and RTFM to build one yourself!"
Last edited by ZhaoLin1457; 11-07-2021 at 01:14 PM.
Yes, and that's as it should be. This is not Ubuntu.
Now, please, lets not derail this thread any more. if you must continue this pointless argument, do it in another thread.
As it should be? There you confirm my claim that Slackware transformed the firewalling in an art reserved to few, the Gurus.
BUT, for every Guru there are probably thousands of regular users like me, who have no time or interests to RTFM several years for making their own fancy firewall.
Just like you said several pages ago, the Heroic Age of computing ended long time ago. Now we have cyber-crime and people interested just to use a Linux system, not to get their MBA on firewalling. Those ones ends with no firewalling at all because they even does not bother about it. They just trust the system and thinks that it has no firewall because it does not need it.
No, I do not talk here about myself. After reading the scaring stories said by the resident Gurus regarding firewalld, somehow I feel embarrassed to confess that over one year ago I learned to use it in more or less than a week in the spare time, and I have use it as a foundation stone for a custom router, built around a mITX motherboard sporting an Intel Celeron J1900 CPU, which gets a 4G connection from an USB dongle - around 100Mbps speed, to give out a wireless access point and an Ethernet link, while a second Ethernet link is over a VPN.
And I am not a sysop or a professional. I am just a regular user of Slackware, with a profession which have no connection with the computing. That's WHY for me is laughable for someone to claim that there are sysops incapable to use firewalld, because that means that I'm more skilled than them. Thing which I do not believe to be true.
However, I agree that the discussion arrived to be pointless, considering the people arrived to argue that Slackware has a firewall just because ships the tools to build it...
PS. I for one, I started learning the usage of firewalld with this article: https://www.putorius.net/introductio...ld-basics.html
And like I said, I managed to setup my custom router in a week, using firewalld as foundation.
Last edited by LuckyCyborg; 11-07-2021 at 03:19 PM.
I don't understand the trouble around rc.firewall, it's no secret trick that someone is hiding from you. It's the complete opposite the slackbook mentions it under Security and so does the slackwiki with several sample scripts under the security category, i found this resources short after starting with Slackware. As i set up a firewall once i don't understand the need for a frontend of a frontend as Package on Slackware, but if you need it for a special use case like changing network types you are free to install them SlackBuilds is full of them. I really don't want to offend someone, im just wondering how it could be such a thing as i thougt it's an obvious thing, as I'm no Guru too.
greetings sunzu
As it should be? There you confirm my claim that Slackware transformed the firewalling in an art reserved to few, the Gurus.
BUT, for every Guru there are probably thousands of regular users like me, who have no time or interests to RTFM several years for making their own fancy firewall.
People no respecting this thread , 99% of mesaages here are useless.
Talking arround new xorg-server point release ,probably some was fixing arround the abi check , cause today archlinux move all x11 stuff to this new 21.1.1 , and rebuild ALL drivers ,imput etc etc.
Humble request to stop a problem I have seen crop up in the kernels (-current 32 bit).
Since moving from 5.12.13 to 5.12.14 (Jun 30 18:28:50 UTC 2021) (all SMP, as I use generic with an initrd), my wifi LED TX/RX indicator flashes constantly. With 5.12.13 and prior kernels in current, this problem was not present.
Lenovo Thinkpad R61 with Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg
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