We've posted a large number of screen shots on the project web page (http://iscs.sourceforge.net/ScreenShots/ScreenShots.html) to show what the application looks like and why the thirty character limit is a problem for us. Any help or input will be greatly appreciated - John On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 21:02, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > We are developing a GUI manager for iptables and FreeS/WAN for large > complex deployments. It is similar to the global management consoles > from Smartpipes, Solsoft, NetScreen, Checkpoint, etc., except that it > creates more efficient rules, is significantly easier to manage, is GPL > rather than a five to six figure product, but does not yet support > additional services such as IDS and Content Filtering. ( > http://iscs.sourceforge.net) Actually it is vendor independent and thus > can manage more than iptables but iptables is our initial target. > We've hit a major problem with the maximum chain name length. We > organize our user communities and resource groups into a hierarchical > structure with inheritance. These map directly to the iptables chain > names. Thus a chain name like > > AppliedTechnologies/Engineering/NewProducts/SanFranciscoLabs/ProjectB > > is not out of the ordinary. This runs us up against the 30 character > limit of chain names very quickly. Working around this by substituting > numbers for names or some other such workaround will greatly complicate > the project and reduce ease of troubleshooting in the field. > > Is there any way to extend the maximum allowed chain name length in > iptables? Thanks - John -- John A. Sullivan III Chief Technology Officer Nexus Management +1 207-985-7880 john.sullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
