Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 13:45:31 Kai Schaetzl wrote:

I want to try out fail2ban and notice that both, kbs-CentOS-Testing and ATrpms, have shorewall as a dependency. I do not use shorewall and have never used it. I have my own iptables/firewall script and am happy with it. Can I install shorewall without any ill effects to my current sue of iptables or would I need to use shorewall for firewalling from that point on? (It may be a good product, but I really don't want to learn yet another rule syntax.)

Kai

I installed fail2ban from rpmforge and it has no dependencies. I use it with the default CentOS firewall

fail2ban-0.8.2-2.el5.rf.noarch.rpm

Tony