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Re: what's happening here?



Not yet...I do know of a perl module for ipchains that is under development.

Ivan


On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 08:30:28AM -0500, r 0 n 1 n wrote:
> 
> know of any GUI interface or web interface to ipchains configuring and
> administering ..? 
> 
> --ko
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >      I'm not sure who all is on this list but I have noticed
> > that it's been pretty dead for a while so I figured I'd spam
> > it and see if I can drum up some interest.
> > 
> > I've seen a few different firewall/vpn projects around and
> > each is going in it's own direction.  There truely isn't 
> > much going on tho...I've started a couple different projects and
> > I'm hoping to get some other's interested in them to help out
> > as I am not much of a programmer and could use some help.
> > 
> > One project is a firewall package and the other a vpn package.
> > My goal is to use the current linux kernel code (2.2.x) and build
> > a set of utilities to front end it.  These utilities would
> > include the following: 
> > 
> > For the firewall package:
> > 
> > 
> > - A GUI for managing the firewall. This would need to be both X based and shell based. (ncurses???) 
> > - Some sort of method for storing rules/configuration and manipulating this information for use in reports, stats, etc... (maybe a database) 
> > - Needs to be easy to backup and restore (the new ipchains features covers alot of this already) 
> > - Needs to be able to be run on multiple platforms. (Maybe java based) 
> > - A web based management piece would be nice as well. 
> > - Maybe add in the ability to manage the routing table and other things such as basic networking on the machine. 
> > - Needs to be easy to upgrade and or patch for future releases 
> > - Needs to be easily migrated between different Linux distributions. 
> > 
> > 
> > For the VPN package:
> > 
> > - A common GUI interface for managing the whole thing. 
> > - A method to manage it from a shell prompt 
> > - The ability to do linux -> linux VPN (these exist already..just funky) 
> > - The ability to allow for remote connections via Windows and other platforms 
> > - IPSec compliancy...I have no clue if this is possible yet? 
> > - Web Based management would be nice 
> > - Easy upgrades/management 
> > 
> > The goal is to come up with a solution that is thorough and stable/secure 
> > (just like the Debian distro in general) and is also competitive with
> > commercial systems.  (that shouldn't be hard actually)  I work for a major
> > bank and would love to be able to go to them with a solution like this.
> > I have been checking out the available solutions out there and most of them
> > only touch bits of what is available.  
> > 
> > If your interested you can find more information on these projects (though
> > I don't have much up yet) at http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/articles
> > 
> > I want to focus on the Debian distro since I think it's the best one to
> > have this type of system running on it.  Plus it will make for ease of upgrades
> > and updates.  Feel free to contact me, yell at me, or whatever.  If there
> > is already a project like this in progress...please let me know so I can
> > see if I can help out with it. :)
> > 
> > Ivan
> > 
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