Thanks. I just wanted to ask, as I would like to use the pfsense GUI for other services and features, like VPN and more but would prefer the fwbuilder GUI when drawing/generating firewall polices.
Thanks for the reply guys. :) Best regards, Svavar O - Reykjavik - Iceland On 22.10.2013, at 14:37, Adam Thompson wrote: > Not as far as I can tell. > Fwbuilder would conflict with the pfSense GUI; every time you made any change > at all (not necessarily just to firewall rules!) in the pfSense GUI, > everything you did in fwbuilder would be overwritten. > > It should in theory be possible for fwbuilder to import the pfSense > configuration, and it should in theory also be possible to modify pfSense to > adopt a "foreign" pf.conf every time it regenerates, but that would cause > lingering breakage throughout the system, since services & packages expect to > be able to modify the ruleset at need. > > Really, if you want to use fwbuilder instead of pfSense's GUI, you're > probably better off just running OpenBSD or FreeBSD directly. > > -Adam > > Svavar Örn Eysteinsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. > > I have been using fwbuilder for a very long time now. Today I'm very > interested in pfsense > and would like to know if someone, or is it possible to use fwbuilder to > configure firewall policy ? > > Correct me if I'm wrong, pfsense uses the BSD pf filter right ? > So it should be possible, ? Maybe just replacing the .conf file with the > generated .conf from fwbuilder ? > > > Any success stories, and or information much appreciated. > > > Best regards, > > Svavar - Reykjavik - Iceland > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
