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diff --git a/network/firehol/README b/network/firehol/README index 3759035aae..a8a41e988b 100644 --- a/network/firehol/README +++ b/network/firehol/README @@ -1,26 +1,28 @@ -firehol is an easy to use but powerfull iptables stateful firewall for -humans. +firehol is an easy to use but powerful iptables stateful firewall +for humans. -FireHOL uses an extremely simple but powerfull way to define firewall rules -which it turns into complete stateful iptables firewalls. FireHOL is a -generic firewall generator, meaning that you can design any kind of local -or routing stateful packet filtering firewalls with ease. +FireHOL uses an extremely simple but powerfull way to define firewall +rules which it turns into complete stateful iptables firewalls. +FireHOL is a generic firewall generator, meaning that you can design +any kind of local or routing stateful packet filtering firewalls with +ease. -You can run FireHOL with the 'helpme' argument, to get a configuration file -for the system run, which you can modify according to your needs. +You can run FireHOL with the 'helpme' argument, to get a configuration +file for the system run, which you can modify according to your needs. -You can find example config files in /usr/doc/firehol-<ver>/examples. This -directory contains examples from a simple client machine, to a lan-wan -gateway or an office server. +You can find example config files in +/usr/doc/firehol-<ver>/examples. This directory contains examples from +a simple client machine, to a lan-wan gateway or an office server. -The default config file in the package contains only a note about where to -find config file examples (/usr/doc/firehol-<ver>/examples), because it is -empty it is not handled as a usual config file. If a user has a real one, -this "example" is simply deleted. +The default config file in the package contains only a note about +where to find config file examples (/usr/doc/firehol-<ver>/examples), +because it is empty it is not handled as a usual config file. If a +user has a real one, this "example" is simply deleted. There is a get-iana.sh script to fetch reserved IPs from iana, It is -renamed to firehol-get-iana, and placed to /usr/sbin. You have to run it at -least once, to silence firehol startup warnings about missing files. +renamed to firehol-get-iana, and placed to /usr/sbin. You have to run +it at least once, to silence firehol startup warnings about missing +files. There is an adblock.sh script to fetch the IPs of popular add servers, which can be blacklisted, see the file for the details. It is renamed to |