ipfirewall tricks

[Murray Taylor]

man ipa-conf is your friend .. mind you it is a large chunk..


here is the home page for IPA ... 
http://ipa-system.sourceforge.net/


it is capable ... and large ... 

also ipastat could be used to feed a web page maybe ?

HTH

Murray Taylor

Special Projects Engineer
Bytecraft Systems

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Guillemette [mailto:shawn at guillemette.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 1:49 AM
> To: Murray Taylor
> Subject: RE: ipfirewall tricks
> 
> I am researching away to do this as well. 
> 
> 	I went to the ipa port location and did the make 
> install and cleaned up the mess. The install completed with 
> out an issue and now Im a little stumped as to how to configure it.
> 
> 
> 
> I am also looking for an application that will monitor the 
> traffic and plot data to a web interface for the wife to have 
> a look at. Similar to ntop. 
> 
> 
> I'm currently running 4.11 on an alpha platform. 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts,
> Shawn 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Murray Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:34 PM
> To: Bryan Curl; freebsd-questions
> Subject: RE: ipfirewall tricks
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Curl
> > Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 9:35 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions
> > Subject: ipfirewall tricks
> > 
> > I want to limit time my kids spend on the internet.
> > The way I am doing it is to make varying, seperate ipf.rules 
> > files and install them from cron at the appropriate time.
> > Problem is, if I make a change to one file, I generally have 
> > to update all the others accordingly.
> > 
> > Is there a better way? I have read man ipf but didnt come out 
> > with any ideas.
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > --
> > Bryan
> > bc3910 'at' gmail 'dot' com
> 
> try ipa from ports...
> 
> it is an 'accounting' packege that monitors the firewall,
> and can activate/deactivate rules based on usage, time-of-day etc 
> (if I remember correctly)
> 
> Murray Taylor
> 
> Special Projects Engineer
> Bytecraft Systems
> 
> P: +61 3 8710 2555
> F: +61 3 8710 2599
> D: +61 3 9238 4275
> E: mtaylor at bytecraft.com.au 
> 
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> takes a
> touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
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