open firewall via web interface authentication

Hm... what's wrong with PERL?

Yours, VB.

Hi Volker,

nothing wrong with PERL, but as it is quite difficult to write safe software, I'm looking for a complete software package providing a web interface, something like the CheckPoint-Firewall provides, where you have to authenticate via a webpage to activate your account before you can access the firewall (with a idle timeout).

Thanks Markus

Am Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:26:40 -0800 schrieb entity:

You need an application level gateway (proxy) for this cause Packet-filtering rules are usually not manipulated by user interaction. And you probably need one that supports a lot of protocols. For a few protocols like http and ftp squid offers what you want but squid does not support nntp, smtp ...

Wolfgang

PERL doesn't exist.

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Sounds like some form of hotspot or captive portal. Google would be your friend here, to really get good advice more complete specs of your goal might help to get better answers.

John

^^^

From man perl:

| perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

Yes, yes, this is a backronym, of course ;-) So: just spell it like you want to. I don't care at all.

Yours, VB.

I suggest checking out (Linux) Smoothwall. You will need a spare PC for this as the install completely removes everything from the HD of the PC and the PC then becomes a dedicated Firewall, Webproxy, Content filter etc etc. Have been using it for a year or so and have even become interested in Linux:-)) You will also need to fit an extra NIC - unless using a modem.

Regards

Jeff