I thought I would take this opportunity to let you know what I''m doing
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Shorewall and to start the ball rolling with this mailing list.
While I continue to provide minor bug fixes and enhancements, my major effort=20
is going into a GUI for Shorewall. Since I have spent the last 32+ years=20
doing kernel and middleware development, I''ve not built a GUI before.
Here''s what I''m thinking at this point:
To ease the learning curve and speed development, I''m using Python 2.2
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tkinter. This is not to imply that users will need to have Python on their=20
firewall systems but they will need to have it installed on at least one=20
system along with ssh and scp clients. The firewall system itself must have a=20
sshd running.
A copy of the /etc/shorewall directory will be kept on the GUI system; the=20
GUI will be designed so it can manage copies of multiple /etc/shorewall=20
directories from multiple firewalls. When the user has the firewall=20
configuration the way she wants it, she can ask the GUI to move it to the=20
firewall system using scp then ask the GUI to restart shorewall (ssh will be=20
used to issue the restart command and get back the results).
Comments or Suggestions?
-Tom=20
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Tom Eastep \ A Firewall for Linux 2.4.*
AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net
ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net
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