Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:03:28 +1100 (Australia/NSW) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de (Juergen Lock) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: `higer level' packet filter rules language/editor to ease maintainance? Message-ID: <200002190103.MAA17185@cairo.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20000219003334.A1117@saturn.kn-bremen.de> from "Juergen Lock" at Feb 19, 2000 12:33:34 AM
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In some mail from Juergen Lock, sie said: > > Hi! > > Is there such a thing as in the subject? Something that lets me, > say, put rules in groups, easily move around or clone groups, apply > global changes to groups like search/replace addresses/netmasks? > sure i can hack something up with a bit of perl/whatever for my > specific problem, but maybe there is something more general out > there... > > I currently need something for ipfw but even if what you use only > knows ipfilter (or something else?) i'd like to hear about it, > i may happen to like it so much that i'd just add ipfw > support... :) (as long as source is available, obviously.) > > I have seen `flc' that was linked on (i think) the ipfilter homepage > but decided to ask here first as it seems no longer maintained and > would need to be updated (its from 1995!) to at least add all the > ipfw features that are new since then. The idea to be able to > generate rules for several different packet filters from the same > input file certainly looked interesting tho and it would seem a > bit strange to assume that really noone uses it anymore... > (or is there a successor maybe?) I don't know if anyone else has done anything similar, I did it more as a "proof of concept" thing and haven't really gone back to it since then. Too many things to do and not enough time :) Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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