RE: Security, Distributed firewalling application...long ;-)

Take a look at Smoothwall for a standalone appliance-like device:
http://www.smoothwall.org/

Better yet, give FWBuilder a shot:
http://www.fwbuilder.org

Fwbuilder is really quite impressive, you can manage multiple platforms
from a single console. The tool is much similar to one offered by that
"other" vendor and significantly cheaper (it's GPL'ed). It does a basic
sanity check against your policy and can even be configured for revision
control. I can think of a few megabucks firewall vendors that don't even
offer that functionality.

-peter 

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Subject: Re: Security, Distributed firewalling application...long ;-)


> Why I need a GUI & policy based framework for implementing my 
> firewalls, when my requirements are static? Well, I may need to add 
> additional role to a server on the LAN, if any other server fails. 
> In fact, I intend to keep the services prepared on alternate 
> servers, only not deploy them redundantly. Secondly, never know when 
> needs change and something that is easily configured and deployed
would adapt better.