Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:13:22 +0800 (SGT) From: "Sudirman Hassan" <s9810048@mmu.edu.my> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeFirewall Message-ID: <3727.10.100.98.133.1002129202.squirrel@10.100.3.5>
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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. 2. have option for ssh for those who like to tinkering by hand. 3. sharing connection with pc in LAN - ( i think suitable for small and medium size company ) - NAT i guess doing all this 4. dhcp 5. caching for faster and saving bandwith - might be using Squid. 6. filtering - might using squidGuard. 7. intrusion detection - snort or something like that. 8. upgrade etc. 9. Setting that improve security All of the above will be done in a way that can be use/configure/tinker via web. To make it related to FreeBSD, I name it "FreeFirewall" :) You might have guess it. :P Security is a must. 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 :) Regards, -dman Cyberjaya, MSC, Malaysia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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