[Firehol-support] Debian Wheezy

Whit Blauvelt whit at transpect.com
Tue Feb 24 21:10:52 GMT 2015


> I've just come across firehol and it looks great, simple yet powerful.

That's my experience.

> I'm not massively keen on compiling from source because this is time
> consuming (I have 7 servers) , requires packages I don't want on my
> servers for security reasons (compilers), and all has to be repeated if a
> security release comes out, it's hard to maintain.

For what it's worth, the ./configure && make && make install cycle for
FireHOL is very fast. Also, the results aren't compiled, but consist of bash
scripts.

Whit



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