-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi tobias, hi all, > in flexibility. The company definitely becomes more dependent on the pe= rson > (or people) who know the system. Untrained personnel would probably not= be > able to cope with it or at least its details. You couldn't buy support > contracts for it. I wonder how many "untrained personnel" would be able to admin a Firewall= =20 whatever it is ;) (fw1 or iptables or else). Yes for sure with the nice GUI provided by FW1 some "untrained personnel"= =20 could play with rules easily but is that a good solution ? There also exist good GUIs for iptables: Firewall Builder http://www.fwbuilder.org/ it support iptables ipchains ipf and pix based firewalls, it also is a=20 management console which enables you to create the rules on an admin mach= ine=20 and then "compile" them to the target "language" and then place it on the= =20 target FW machine via a pubkey auth mechanism ... So I think the real problem is not really with the GUI, maybe the integra= tion=20 with VPN can be a problem... because yes FreeSwan is not really user=20 Friendly, though it works well for me and my clients (Linux and Win machi= nes=20 alike). And I think in many countries you can also find Linux consulting companie= s=20 which would be likely to offer services around iptables and FreeSwan=20 management and the like. I am not sure it would be difficult to find one,= and=20 the price should not be much more than with a Firewall-1 consultant. I say this because the company I work for offers just that kind of servic= es in=20 France. > Cheers, > Tobias Cheers, Florent http://www.alphacent.com - --=20 As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad= of=20 an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we shou= ld=20 do freely and generously. =09--Benjamin Franklin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE95fyuQe8gCED8yYERAmnmAJ4rfJceWb3+82Csl6B/sfpPynotdgCgm/+U 2ewmUwcJ0C2S6dsEuR+hgqE=3D =3Dt7EB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
