Features for FC4

Bryan W. Headley bwheadley at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 13 16:12:50 UTC 2004


Kim Lux wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 09:29 -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
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>>Just checking: since iptables has system-config-securitylevel as its 
>>frontend, what is better about FWBuilder in your mind?
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>system-config-securitylevel only lets the user set a few things, like
>which ports are open.  With FWBuilder, you can set up NAT, define times
>when specific ports are open, do port forwarding, block specific IPs,
>etc.   You'd have to run it to see what I mean.
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>I used it to set up NAT and port forwarding. 
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>One thing I really like about fwbuilder is that you can set up a fw
>configuration, save it as a file and employ it on all the machines on
>the network just by copying it to the other machines.
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Initially complex-looking. Qt. But it looks like it'd be very 
Enterprise-Friendly. RCS? (I like the premise of that; a real admin puts 
everything into version control)




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