Hi Gents,
I've been a LEAF user for some time and I must say it has made me look good on several projects. having said that I'm having the similar experience with all projects that involved LEAF. Clients need router/firewall/wireless AP. I recommend configure and install LEAF. Client is happy things work great. Client needs to make changes or install news systems they call me. I'm OK with that but my complains that it's not easy to manage the environment by them self.
I've looked around the net for a LEAF replacement and stumbled on m0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch/wall/) wish quite frankly is very well done and easy to
configure, but not flexible enough for all my requirements.
Is there an initiative to create a WebUI for LEAF ? and a Configuration/Built system that would make the configuration process easier ?
I think that LEAF would gain a lot of popularity if these things where integrated ...!
This is a *VERY* popular request, and has generated a lot of traffic on the Development list over the years (mine the archives for more discussion about this than you probably care to read!).
The short answer is that it is very complicated to both keep the flexability of LEAF which makes very useful while at the same time simplifying the configuration process enough to allow a GUI interface.
Note that this double-edged sword gives even full-blown linux distributions (where resource limitations aren't really an issue, and things like perl and python are available for scripting) fits, so it's not exactly an easy nut to crack.
The good news is a lot of thought has gone into creating an architecture that will allow exactly this, and work is progressing (although perhaps somewhat slowly) on a configuration system that aims to keep the flexability of linux which makes LEAF useful while providing a consistent interface to configuration information which will allow a variety of back-end tools (from text menus to GUI configuration screens) to be implemented. Refer to the leaf-devel archives for more details, and the CVS area on SourceForge for the (still in development) code.
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