Florin Andrei wrote: >Are there any plans to include FWBuilder in Red Hat? > > There is alread a configtool for firewalls. gnome-lokkit. Vahalla also has firewall-config which uses QT. >http://fwbuilder.sourceforge.net/ > >AFAICT, it's the best open-source GUI to manage firewalls. It has many >good features offered by closed-source GUIs; after working for a while >with CheckPoint, FWBuilder was a breeze. >IMO, if Linux is going to make it as a firewall in the enterprise, it >needs a good GUI to perform administration in a complex environment. >It's not like command-line tools are no good, but when the network grows >beyond a certain size, you need a more structured approach to firewalls. >This is what FWBuilder does: it allows you to think in a more structured >way, define objects, attach properties to them, etc. > lokkit is used by anaconda (I think), so how would that be replaced? Some way to configure a firewall during the install is needed. -Thomas _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
