Re: [Leaf-devel] Grand New Firewall Paradigm

[Charles Steinkuehler]

> I'm still interested in a configuration file that uses objects and OO
> to create firewalls - someone called it a formatter; I'm beginning to
> consider it a sort of "firewall rules compiler" or something like
> that.  Using ruby is quite tempting, even though it isn't big and
> normally won't be found on a small LRP system.....
>
> Don't know what Ruby is?  You should :-)  http://www.ruby-lang.org

Looks interesting...
It would be nice to have a general purpose programming language available.
I believe Dave plans to include Python as part of the standard Butterfly
disto.

There are also some folks who already have an XML firewall language:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/hlfl/?highlight=hlfl

I have yet to get enough time to sit down and examine this...

Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)


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