Re: OpenBSD Firewalls

[julien Touche <touche@sigil.homeunix.net>]

Milhomem, Marcus wrote:
> 	I have here in my company several OpenBSD firewalls and they are
> great, but now as my company is getting bigger, my rules are becoming very
> complex and I am afraid of start making mistakes because of the complexity
> of my rules.  So I start looking for some way to avoid that, and find the
> Firewall Builder gui, I am thinking of using it, but as my firewalls dosenīt
> have graphical interface I was wondering if itīs possible to install a
> client on my firewalls and manage them from my desktop that is a Linux box.
> Is this possible? any one has done anything like that? how you organaize

firewall builder can do it on linux. but it's relatively young for 
openbsd plateform and last time i check, i believe you'd better make the 
  rules script on a linux and next upload/execute on openbsd box. (and 
with 1.0.5, i had some problems to compile all).
But for uniq management it's great.

> your firewalls policies? I would like to find a product that is capable to
> manage my OpenBSD firewalls from a single point. today I use the vi to edit
> all my firewall rules on each machine, and that is getting more dificult
> every day, because my firewall ruleset is getting big and complex.
> 

world expand, knowledge, network too, ... :)


Regards

		Julien Touche