From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 20:14:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-57-209.knology.net [24.214.57.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602AD37B403 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f943Dww99748; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:13:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200110040313.f943Dww99748@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Sudirman Hassan" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeFirewall In-reply-to: Message from "Sudirman Hassan" of "Thu, 04 Oct 2001 01:13:22 +0800." <3727.10.100.98.133.1002129202.squirrel@10.100.3.5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 22:13:58 -0500 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 "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