From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: allen Subject: Re: Hi... Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:53:09 -0600 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <200301182053.10001.aef@prismnet.com> References: <20030118222445.99766.qmail@web20908.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: To: Daniel , NetFilter In-Reply-To: <20030118222445.99766.qmail@web20908.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:24 pm, Daniel wrote: > Hi, thanks to all of you for share your opinion with me and be sure > that I will be glad to add all your needs to gtk-iptables. Just give me > time. > > I do not write gtk-iptables because I want to learn how to use > iptables, because I know how to use it, is just that I learn how to > programm with Gtk and I thought that it will nice to have a GUI for > iptables, that for people new to iptables will be much more easy and > for advanced users much more quickly to make rules. Thanks again and > keep sending comments and opinions. Daniel, Once when I had time I was working on "St. Elmo's Firewall", a gui that would work with IPTables rules. It is a VERY difficult thing to decide how to present a GUI. Just IPTables rules ? Or something abstracted and user friendly ? With nmap type features ? With ability to ping and discover a local network, services, etc., ? With ability to manage FreeS/Wan IPSec ? Also, I was looking into settings that are affected in /proc related to networking. Click and enable, what value needs to go where... And what modules need to be loaded ? Also, everything in it has lots of Help explaining this that and the other thing. As it is a prototype, the things that work best in the code I can dig up are the HELP, and the driving of Nmap. What I have is a concept than happens to run and you are welcome to check it out for ideas and even take it over. It is unlikely that I will find the time to do anything other that clean it up a bit and stick it on Sourceforge. FYI -AEF