> Personally, I would expect that the right approach was to develop a simple
> traffic control tool that would take a much ... less difficult input, then to
> manage the high level configuration of that with puppet.

I actually abandoned trying to build my own firewall from scratch and
looked into something like Endian instead. I didn't sleep well with my
own firewall to be honest.

Endian has all the techs we know and love: openvpn, tc, iptables,
routing, spam-assassin, ntop etc. etc. It provides a nice gui, can be
clustered and backs up to a single tarball for easy restoration (which
can be emailed periodically to a user).  Endian is also open source -
so you can download the ISO and try it in a VM. Of course I'm sure
there are many solutions like this so its worth shopping around - but
the concept is possibly less painful.

Of course I did speak to someone recently who wanted to start a
business case doing firewall management in puppet - in that case he
could spend the time to develop such a tool. While that seems cool I
never had such luxury of time myself :-).

ken.

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