Features for FC4

[Kim Lux]

I don't know if it supports RCS directly.  I don't think so.  The
development team is small and tightly controlled.  The files it
generates are XML, so I don't think version control would be a problem
or difficult to implement.

I think FWbuilder would be an outstanding sys admin tool.  It isn't that
iptables are that hard, it is just that if you do it for a large number
of machines or you only do it once in a while it is easy to get
disorganized.  I find that fwbuilder allows me (a relative fw newbie) to
keep our firewalls organized.


On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 10:12 -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> Kim Lux wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 09:29 -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Just checking: since iptables has system-config-securitylevel as its 
> >>frontend, what is better about FWBuilder in your mind?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >system-config-securitylevel only lets the user set a few things, like
> >which ports are open.  With FWBuilder, you can set up NAT, define times
> >when specific ports are open, do port forwarding, block specific IPs,
> >etc.   You'd have to run it to see what I mean.
> >
> >I used it to set up NAT and port forwarding. 
> >
> >One thing I really like about fwbuilder is that you can set up a fw
> >configuration, save it as a file and employ it on all the machines on
> >the network just by copying it to the other machines.
> >  
> >
> Initially complex-looking. Qt. But it looks like it'd be very 
> Enterprise-Friendly. RCS? (I like the premise of that; a real admin puts 
> everything into version control)
> 
-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc