Netfilter GUI

[Simon Edwards]

Hi,

> If I were you I would caution people that the scripts Guarddog generates
> are "not ready for prime time." 

Where did you download from?

Quoting the download section of my web site:
"
Development Version

 WARNING: This is the development version of Guarddog. If you want to get a 
firewall that works and has been tested use the stable version. The 
development version is not compatible with earlier Guarddog firewalls. You 
have been warned. 
"

> This isn't to slam you - I think you're going in a good and valuable
> direction with this stuff, and have a solid future in interface design. But
> if you're going to be telling people that Guarddog is currently usable, you

See above, I don't recall claiming that the current *development* version was 
ready for prime time.  My appologies (sp?) if I haven't made the distinction 
between dev and stable versions clear enough to people.

> ought to get hold of a big hard drive and install a few versions of Red Hat
> and Debian and SuSe and maybe even Slackware and test that it works on

You are welcome to send me CDROMs. (Unfortunately I can't d/l and ISO. :( )

> It will be truly great stuff when it does.

Well send bug reports then instead of complaining. sorry, but I'm not sure 
how else I should take this mail.

I think you must realise how difficult it is to develop this kind of 
software. It is sensitive to almost everything. Network setup, distro, shell 
and awk flavour/version (!), NICs, kernel version etc etc, not to mention the 
billions of network protocols out there which I can't directly test and watch 
myself.  This probably explains why no-one has developed anything like this 
before... so, your patience and support please.

I'll address the bugs/problems mentioned in private mail.

cheers,

-- 
Simon Edwards
simon@simonzone.com
http://www.simonzone.com/
Nijmegen, The Netherlands       "ZooTV? You made the right choice."