Richard Neill wrote: > Let me start by saying thank you for a wonderful product.
You are most welcome. > >> Anyone have something on their wish list that we might want to add to 4.4? >> > There's the existing GUI in the shape of Mandriva's drakfirewall and > drakgw, which are based on shorewall and GTK-perl. They work pretty > well, but lack sophistication. > The question of a GUI comes up each time that I send out one of these requests and my answer is still the same. I have spent my entire 40-year career working in middleware and kernel programming. I have no GUI experience and it is generally accepted that any developer's first GUI is guaranteed to be unusable. Plus, I have no interest in GUI development. So I'm going to have to leave that one to someone with the skills, time and interest to persue. > Another idea: what about implementing a "shorewall helpme" command, > which would check for all the common mistakes (often warned about in the > FAQ)? This would essentially extend "shorewall check". I'll have to give that one some thought. My initial reaction is that such a feature assumes that there is one 'right' way to configure a firewall and that a computer program can determine if a configuration is 'right'. I'm doubtful that either of those propositions is true. > > Lastly, I still contend that offering a friendly probing service would > be useful - though I recall that this was shot down the last time I > raised it, on the basis of too much bandwidth requirement. > That is still a good suggestion but it has nothing to do with Shorewall 4.4 since it isn't something that would be part of the product. Thanks Richard, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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