Christian Vieser wrote:
> Shorewall Geek wrote:
> 
>> The output of 'shorewall dump' tells you everything you ever need
>> to know about your Shorewall configuration. Of course, you have to
>> understand IP networking, Linux Networking and Netfilter in order to
>> interpret the output.
> 
> 
> And this is the point. Not all employees are at the same high skill 
> level.

But your goal should be to get them to that skill level, right?

> So there is
> the wish to have a little command line tool (perhaps it could even be 
> embedded in an
> apache service), where you put in a host name or ip address, and you get 
> out a
> compact listing of allowed connections to/from this host.
> 
> I don't think that it's very much work to write such a tool.

I disagree. If you try to account for policy routing (multi-ISP), packet
marking, NAT, Proxy ARP, ... the tool will be quite complex.

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