Features for FC4

[Kim Lux]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 09:29 -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> Just checking: since iptables has system-config-securitylevel as its 
> frontend, what is better about FWBuilder in your mind?

system-config-securitylevel only lets the user set a few things, like
which ports are open.  With FWBuilder, you can set up NAT, define times
when specific ports are open, do port forwarding, block specific IPs,
etc.   You'd have to run it to see what I mean.

I used it to set up NAT and port forwarding. 

One thing I really like about fwbuilder is that you can set up a fw
configuration, save it as a file and employ it on all the machines on
the network just by copying it to the other machines.

I agree that system-config-security level works for simple firewall
tasks, but if you need to do something that it doesn't do and you don't
want to manually do iptables, fwbuilder is a great tool. 

-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc