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From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
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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.
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Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
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