Consider the masquerading helper modules something that makes things work, not something that makes things safer.
is that an issue on out of the box 7.2 personnal firewall with masquerading? I don't know what are helpers modules...
Use the "lsmod" command to see the modules that are currently loaded in your kernel. The configuration possibilities of the personal-firewall allow an easy setup of masquerading connections (basically, I could not find anything easier). However, it does not insert kernel modules that can open ports from the outside to the inside for protocols that need this (IRC, FTP, ...).
thanks jdd
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