gui configuration of firewalls, was: Re: [Cialug] ATA IDE Card

[David Champion]

Mark Hesseltine wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:37:20 -0600, david l goodrich <dlg@dorkzilla.org> wrote:
> 
>>Bryan Baker wrote:
>>
>>>On Jan 31, 2005, at 12:13 PM, David Champion wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>What happened to the Windows configurator that Coyote LRP used to
>>>>offer? I don't see it on their web site. http://coyotelinux.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>Just poked around:
>>>http://www.coyotelinux.com/downloads/channel.php?ChannelID=5
>>>It's there.
>>
>>what about m0n0wall?  it's got a handy-dandy web configurator built in.
>>
>>granted, rewriting the rc scripts in php strikes me as ... odd... but
>>apparently it's quite a nice product.  http://m0n0.ch/wall/
>>   --waldo
>>
>>
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>>
> If you're going to stick with the HD/controller setup, I'll second the
> use of m0n0. I just got DSL installed at work and needed something to
> route/firewall my DSL connection. Use the console one time to set the
> network interfaces, and everything else can be done from a nice
> WebGUI.
> 

Might make a nice meeting presentation : overview of firewall 
applications. Anyone using Smoothwall, or any of the others? Does anyone 
know of one that incorporates the Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator? The 
Smoothwall "commercial" edition hints that it uses something like that, 
but it might just be the simpler QoS stuff, which Shorewall does for free.

-dc