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Old 3rd January 2011
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Originally Posted by afcelie View Post
I am also curious if there isn't someone indeed using a gui for maintaining the firewalls.
The project developers don't advocate the use of GUI tools for two reasons:
  • GUI tools are yet another layer. Development on pf(4) has been progressed so quickly that no GUI tool has kept up.
  • To effectively use pf(4) requires understanding. Understanding comes from studying the pf(4) manpage & PF Users' Guide.
The only third-party document which comes close to serving as a pf(4) introduction is Hansteen's manuscript:

http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/
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