"Scott C. Best" wrote:
>
> Matt:
> Heya. Quick comment:
>
> > > 1. To make UI design easier for everyone, it'd be *nice* if the user's
> > > intentions for the firewall were stored on the firewall in XML format.
> > > A firewall.conf, as it were.
> >
> > I don't like this whole thread, but I'm a bit crotchety this morning.
> >
> > I disagree with #1. I don't want to have anything to do with XML, and
> > if that's what's going to happen here, then it's not for me. If someone
> > wants to build up some cgi-scripts to do https configuration with the
> > files that exist, I like that idea, as it's possible with weblet or
> > whatever and almost everyone has a browser.
> >
> > I don't like the idea of a standard interface for all the flavors of Lrp.
>
> Okay. :) I think we're more in agreement than not.
>
> My intention was to speculate on the need for a bedrock piece
> for, specifically, a firewall UI. Having one would allow more focused work
> by the "people who want to write UI's" and the "people that want to create
> rulesets" and the "people who want to create new capabilities". Given a
> basis, there could then be created multiple flavors of UI for a LEAF-based
> firewall-router. Some would be GUI's, some lrcfg-like, some would look
> suspiciously like ae.
> So, IMO, it helps to create "focused diversity" if everyone who
> did branch out didn't have to worry about the whole enchilada, ceiling to
> floorboards.
> Of course, it doesn't *have* to be XML. The alternative is a file
> format that has agreed-upon "fixed" variable names of some sort (which
> I'm using now in my project).
> cheers,
> Scott
I understand what you mean now. Being one of the people who writes
a set of packet filter rules to help enable firewalling, this whole
idea of a standard reference point is pretty radical to me, perhaps
only because I haven't taken the time to break the rules out of my
shell script and put them into a modular file. I'm about to do that
and I'm sure I'll see more of what you perceive when I look into
ways for the user to add/delete rules. I just figured people used ae.
Be well,
Matthew
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