Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist --8<-- ferm is a tool to maintain and setup complicated firewall rules. It allows to reduce the tedious task of carefully inserting rules and chains by a large factor, thus enabling the firewall administrator to spend more time on developing good rules then the proper implementation of the rule.
ferm is a simple perl program, so it's lightweight, does not require any compiling or building, and it's construct can be adapted and modified quickly, so new features should be easy to adopt. The fact that it's perl-based makes it more trustworthy as well. ferm supports ipchains firewalls, ipfwadm rules and iptables firewalls. Changing to another system will be very easy, and ferm will help in the process. --8<-- http://www.geo.vu.nl/~koka/ferm/ GPL. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],havoc,gaeshido}.fi,{debian,wanderer}.org,stonesoft.com} unix, linux, debian, networks, security, | First snow, then silence. kernel, TCP/IP, C, perl, free software, | This thousand dollar screen dies mail, www, sw devel, unix admin, hacks. | so beautifully.