On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
> Well, I think all but the most high level management (and perhaps even
> high-level management) would understand something like:
>
> Src IP Dst IP Service Time Host
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ComanyX WWWHost HTTP Mon-Sun FWHostA
>
> Should be explanatory enough.. That is the type of information I was
> looking for.
OK and at least some of them should understand...
> > All good points - and they exist in commercial products like
> > Watchguard. Having this capability as a standad linux package would be
> > great - but I don't see us writing it here at Red Hat in the near
> > future.
>
> And I'm sure one of the reasons for that is because it will either have to
> be rewritten, or signficantly modified for the next kernel version. There
> is also (now) a small market, and many other things to work on. But it is
> something that needs to be done before I can look my management in the
> face, and claim we can use Linux to replace our firewall..
>
> As well as replacing our web server. You mentioned the apachecfg program
> in a previous message. While it is still pretty weak, it shows potential,
> but how actively is it being developed? Why not use the one the apache
> group is working on, and apply your efforts there?
If the Apache group ship a config product (I didn't know they were
even working on one) then I expect we woulduse it.
> > Probably the best bet for this would be a linuxconf module for
> > establishing, checking and managing/testing an ipfwadm firewall.
>
> Yes, that's true, but are you going to support that? The text-based
> interface for linuxconf is ok, but the graphical one is kinda weak, and
> the whole thing takes complete control of your system.
We are supporting Linuxconf - I expect you will see the first fruits
of this in the next version of Red Hat Linux (whenever that occurs
:-). I also expect that Linuxconf will manage only a few things at
first...
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