Hi firewaller's, "Ivan E. Moore II" schrieb:
> I have been taking a look at the FCT...it's interesting > I have only a few issues with it. Overall it's well done. Thanks :-) > The issues I have with it are these: > 1> It's still cryptic. Not everyone is going to want to deal > with having to know what ipchains is and all that... If someone want's to build a firewall, he really should ;-) > The interface needs to be more user friendly. ??? > (But from a technical standpoint > I like it) Me too :-) > 2> This is a generic front end. It's designed for multiple > types of systems. (not just linux and not just ipchains) This > leads to inconsistancy and the possibility of other problems. At the moment, the only inconsistancy is IP-Masqu. with Darren's IP-Filter, though IPFilter supports IP-Masquerading. But at the moment i don't see the need to support this with IP-Filter. > 3> It doesn't seem to be up to par with the 2.2.x kernel yet. Version 1.1.1 runs under Linux 2.2 (SuSE 6.0), just released with small bugfixes. The bug-devil introduced a false "-M" option in V1.1.0, don't ask me why, i really don't know ;) > I think it does have some good ideas and definatly is well done. I'd > like to see both a more straight forth front end how could/should this be done ? > (for those who know what they are doing) and also a more idiot proof type of > front > end (for those who are not linux swavy) > > Also, another thing is that it still does not solve the issue of > having a shell based configuration program. (tho this can be used > vial lynx! ). i configure fct with vi :-) > Just a few tid bits. > > oh yea..for those of you who missed the posting on this to begin > with, the url for this site is: > > http://www.fen.baynet.de/~ft114/FCT.htm > > Ivan Yeah, and please sign my guestbook... -- MfG Jens Hellmerich-Friedrich http://www.fen.baynet.de/jens.hellmerichs-friedrich
