From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 10:15:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mmu.edu.my (ext-dns.mmu.edu.my [203.106.62.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803BD37B405 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venus.cyber.mmu.edu.my (venus.cyber.mmu.edu.my [203.106.62.12]) by mmu.edu.my (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA27092 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:11:39 +0800 (MYT) Received: from geiger.cyber.mmu.edu.my (geiger.cyber.mmu.edu.my [10.100.13.1]) by venus.cyber.mmu.edu.my (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA25397 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:11:34 +0800 (SGT) Received: from lunar.cyber.mmu.edu.my ([10.100.3.5]) by geiger.cyber.mmu.edu.my (NAVGW 2.5 bld 90) with SMTP id M2001100401200411398 for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2001 01:20:04 +0800 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lunar.cyber.mmu.edu.my (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id BAA05544; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:13:22 +0800 (SGT) X-Authentication-Warning: lunar.cyber.mmu.edu.my: nobody set sender to s9810048@mmu.edu.my using -f Received: from 10.100.98.133 (SquirrelMail authenticated user s9810048) by 10.100.3.5 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:13:22 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <3727.10.100.98.133.1002129202.squirrel@10.100.3.5> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:13:22 +0800 (SGT) Subject: FreeFirewall From: "Sudirman Hassan" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Thanks for answers on my XFree864.10 problem. I'll try it when I get back my monitor ( i sent to shop for repair this morning, it getting blur for months and I could no more resist it :). Will be getting back on Monday - quite long time eh ). I'm tired of windows. That's say everything. Now I want to shift to FreeBSD. I want to learn it and love it. That's what I put up at my locker. I started to play with it 3 months ago with some 8 months backround in Linux. Since then I never look back to something they call "bloating-prone-to-crash-OS". In process of learning it, I want to contribute something to community. Eventhough it might be a small project, hope it'll help other later or at least give some idea or prototype so that someone might be coming with better thing. Thus I come with idea of webbased firewall. Easy to use, install and manage. The idea is that : 1. Sys admin using webbased interface to manage the firewall - remotely using browser. Can do configuration of firewall policy, rule via web. See log file. for firewall - i might be using ip filter. 2. have option for ssh for those who like to tinkering by hand. 3. sharing connection with pc in LAN - ( i think suitable for small and medium size company ) - NAT i guess doing all this 4. dhcp 5. caching for faster and saving bandwith - might be using Squid. 6. filtering - might using squidGuard. 7. intrusion detection - snort or something like that. 8. upgrade etc. 9. Setting that improve security All of the above will be done in a way that can be use/configure/tinker via web. To make it related to FreeBSD, I name it "FreeFirewall" :) You might have guess it. :P Security is a must. This is my Final Year Project. There's many topics available that I can choose but I think better I propose something that I can use it as a way to play with my FreeBSD box and in the same time provide those with faint-hearted to use FreeBSD and later love it. :) Also I see that many company ( small to medium ) need something like this. Something like this have appeared in Linux such as Mandrake SNF and e-smith but I don;t know whether we FreeBSDian have one. Now, come to what I want to ask. :) Please give comments, constructive suggestion, links, article, whatever so that I can make this project a reality. Personal help would also be welcome. I like to mail personally to those who volunteer to help personally rather flooding this mailing list. Flame should be okay :) Regards, -dman Cyberjaya, MSC, Malaysia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message