Re: Firewall Config Tool

[jludwig <wralphie comcast net>]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:02, Sebastien JUST wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 13:41 +0200, Sulyok Peti wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi All Firewall Interested,
> >>
> >>I have started writing a GUI for iptables, and I would like to know what
> >>you think about that. I have made two RPM-s for testing. These are
> >>available at 
> >>http://sp.web.elte.hu/files/gipt-0.1-1.noarch.rpm
> >>http://sp.web.elte.hu/files/gipt-0.1-1.src.rpm
> >>There is also a screenshot at
> >>http://sp.web.elte.hu/gipt-screenshot.png
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Why start a new project, when you could instead integrate Firestarter in
> >the distribution?
> >
> >http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/
> >  
> >
> I share this opinion. One other great tool is FirewallBuilder which has 
> a complete GUI and working RPMs for Fedora Core 2.
> http://www.fwbuilder.org/
> 
> But we must keep in mind that many administrators do not like using such 
> tools because of the generated scripts.
> 
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> | Sébastien JUST                  |
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>From what I have played with I like it. 

My problem with most GUI's is the lack of control of the finished
firewall.
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jludwig <wralphie comcast net>