Bug#93154: ITP: ferm -- generate firewall rules from a high-level language

[Tommi Virtanen <tv-nospam-2e36c7@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

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        ferm is a tool to maintain and setup complicated firewall
        rules. It allows to reduce the tedious task of carefully inserting
        rules and chains by a large factor, thus enabling the firewall
        administrator to spend more time on developing good rules
        then the proper implementation of the rule.

        ferm is a simple perl program, so it's lightweight, does
        not require any compiling or building, and it's construct
        can be adapted and modified quickly, so new features should
        be easy to adopt. The fact that it's perl-based makes it
        more trustworthy as well.

        ferm supports ipchains firewalls, ipfwadm rules and
        iptables firewalls. Changing to another system will be
        very easy, and ferm will help in the process.
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        http://www.geo.vu.nl/~koka/ferm/

        GPL.

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