Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:13:19 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeFirewall Message-ID: <200110040914.f949E0F04447@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <200110040313.f943Dww99748@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: 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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Hi David! On 3 Oct 01 at 22:13 you wrote: > 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. The CLI might be preferable for you and me, but the web-based interface to firewall does have it's uses. When our network was connected to Internet in 1997 I had very little experience with Linux (and UNIX in general), but thanks to a firewall with web-based user interface I was able to implement Linux firewall with no problems at all. Such a firewall interface for FreeBSD would help to spread the OS to places where people would not otherwise consider using any kind of Unix because it is "too difficult". I think this is a Good Thing. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * I've got a life but it won't run on my operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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