Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 22:13:58 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Sudirman Hassan" <s9810048@mmu.edu.my> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeFirewall Message-ID: <200110040313.f943Dww99748@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Sudirman Hassan" <s9810048@mmu.edu.my> of "Thu, 04 Oct 2001 01:13:22 %2B0800." <3727.10.100.98.133.1002129202.squirrel@10.100.3.5>
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"Sudirman Hassan" writes: [...] > 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. [...] Interesting ideas but if one were a good student of the FreeBSD ports collection I'd bet everything you describe is already there. Thought the "bloatware" concept worth noting as putting a web interface on top for firewall management sounds like bloat to me. Lucent has a pretty GUI interface for their firewalls and Pipeline routers. I hate it. I'll take a simple telnet session every time. To set the firewall rules one must use the Lucent Windows GUI tool. A FreeBSD CLI is much simpler for me to deal with. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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