From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 2:35:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F1F37B405 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:35:20 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15p4sI-00016j-00; Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:33:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:33:02 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Sudirman Hassan Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeFirewall In-Reply-To: <3727.10.100.98.133.1002129202.squirrel@10.100.3.5> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Sudirman Hassan wrote: > 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. Whatever you're using, one of the first lessons you learn when doing remote firewall configuration: - keep a working copy of the current config as well as a "new version". Use a script to install it that PUTS THE OLD ONE BACK after 30 seconds or so unless interrupted. > 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 :) Re: GUIs and making firewall configuration simple - Firewall configuration is something that you unfortunately have to have some idea of what you're doing, to do; but I'd be very interested in an expert system that could suggest a setup given security requirements and a description of the physical layout. Depends if your FYP is researchy or engineeringy. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Whose kung-fu is the best? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message