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John Ross <jross_at_gta_dot_com> wrote:
> Larry-
>
> In version 3.0 one of the new features was the ability to group
filters as
> you had suggested. We refer to this feature as Network Objects. As for
> grouping aliases, we don't really see why these would need to be
> grouped. Grouping tunnels may one day be an option, but not any time
soon.
Yes, this is good. My idea was to group these items together so that
they could be expired together. For example
delete (Alias 9, tunnel 12,13, filter 1,2,3) after 2000/03/22 17:00:00
> As for your other suggestion about a time limit on filters. Although
this
> might be useful for some people, in the mean time simply paying attention
> and deleting the filters manually isn't that difficult. How often would
> you be using time based filters? You would have to go to the firewall to
> add the timed filter each time you wanted to use it anyway, why not just
> log on a second time to delete it?
All well and good to say, but in practice - well, let me give an
example.
Let's say that I have a group of people heading off to a trade show
for a week. I want to give them access to POP and SMTP for their
email access. Now in this case they will use our mail server, so all
I need a new filter to allow pop access (normally completely blocked)
from their subnet at the trade show. I install it and add a comment
that in a week (on a certain date) it should be deleted.
After about 15 minutes I will have completely forgotten that I did any
of this (I am one of two people that manager the network for a company
of 200 people spread across 4 timezones on 3 continents - not a lot
for some, maybe, but it keeps me hoping :-).
The problem is worse if the change I make is to one of the Gnatboxes
at another office (I review their config *very* infrequently).
Another common example is our development team often wants to put a
beta version of a new product or something on the PSN for a few days
so one or a couple of our clients can access and test new features.
These require the full complement of Alias, Tunnel and Filter, where
there can be any number of tunnels and filters for the one machine.
All of the above I do a couple of times a month, a lot more around
tradeshow season. So, not often in some books, but often enough.
I hope I don't sound impatient or annoyed in this email, I am not
really. This is something that I would find amazingly useful, and am
astounded that it is not an often requested feature. I would not have
thought my needs to be much beyond pedestrian.
I guess in closing, my concern is that although it sounds easy, "just
log on a second time to delete it", that second time is difficult to
remember at the "right time", and with enough other work to do, it is
easy to ignore for a while.
>
> We appreciate our user's suggestions. We read them all. Please keep in
> mind that making changes to any program, no matter how small the change
> seems to be, might require a considerable about of time to develop. Our
> efforts right now are focused on many things that will end up making life
> much easier for our users.
>
> -John
>
>
>
> At 07:55 AM 3/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
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> >Don't hold your breath.
> >
> >I have asked for this feature on just about every release I have
> >received for this product.
> >
> >One of my biggest frustrations is that I cannot associate a number of
> >objects (alias, tunnel & filter) in some kind of an administrative
> >group. There is no way to link these various items together except
> >via comments, and comments are not available, so ??
> >
> >hmm, I see a subsequent response to this message in my inbox from gta,
> >and as I suspected, it's on the list, but no promises. Too bad :-(
> >
> >Michael W. Burden <mwb_at_lynk_dot_com> wrote:
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> > > Is there any chance that a future release of GNAT Box could
> > > have "Description" fields for tunnels and static mappings,
> > > similar to the "Description" field that filters already have?
> > >
> > > Before version 3.x.x, it used to be possible to tell what a
> > > tunnel was for by looking at the filters for the tunnel.
> > >
> > > Now that version 3.x.x has the "filter" check box, it's a
> > > lot easier to forget what a tunnel was created for.
> > >
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