OpenBSD astaro

Hey, I have been tinkering with the idea of writing some nice gui interfaces and making some easier changes for openbsd for a while. I work for a company that does openbsd firewalls, vpns, etc. and we lack a good easy interface for our customers to use their boxes. After seeing the release of the crunchbox (which is supposidly priced at like 21 grand) I have decided that its a good idea. Since astaro is GPL lincesed I was thinking about using some of its code, and making basically an astaro that works under openbsd. Any questions, comments, ideas, or if anyone wouuld like to help?

Dean McNamee
dean@globalnetus.com

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0 Espen over 23 years ago

Yes I'm interested if we use FreeBSD [:)]

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0 ReD-MaN over 23 years ago in reply to Espen

I believe you would run into a problem here, as only the Linux OS part of Astaro is GPL. The rest is private code (web interface, backend). That has to be licensed, and is not covered by GPL.
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0 spoonm over 23 years ago in reply to ReD-MaN

Well, then if its licensed otherwise I suppose we would have to start from scratch. Not a big deal. Now that someone brought up freebsd, its a good point. I should try and make it for *BSD, and include the little difference between each distribution so they all work. I better get started [:)]

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0 TnM over 23 years ago in reply to spoonm

Go spoonm Go!

[;)]
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0 Espen over 23 years ago in reply to TnM

Any progress ???

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0 Espen over 23 years ago in reply to Espen

Hi all,

With the new licensing and stuff, maybe it's time we put up a project to make the "ASL" BSD version come to reality. We are a bunch of resourcefull people here and we can make our own truly free version of ASL, with HA,QOS,Proxys and all the other stuff we want.
We can build a project of our own, i can host all of it and do the project management, i can also do programming and make the webinterface (maybe it should be a part of WEBmin ??).

Let's pic this up and see to it that everyone can have a free firewall that fit's all of our needs.

Brgds Espen

[ 31 May 2002: Message edited by: Espen ]
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0 PabloDiablo over 23 years ago in reply to Espen

I think it's a great idea. This idea I also suggested to a bunch of friends of my but then a linux-OS supported CD-version. The problem is that they have not much time to work on it very soon... I miss some features in Astaro ( wich I reported to ASL) and maybe it's possible to implement it in the *BSD version. Also if you need some hostspace, I'll be willing to give some (also depending on the the data-traffic, got a limit of 1 GB a month, for now !!!) Let's move on with this project !!!!
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0 esinctio over 23 years ago in reply to PabloDiablo

Well, I also think it's a good idea. But I think it would be much easier to write an Webmin module (wich I am going to do as soon as the uPNP programmation is done)

I also don't have a lot of time but I would spend time in this project because its good. As long it is fully GPL.

Greetings,

An home BSD fan
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0 Resistance over 23 years ago in reply to esinctio

FreeBSD would be awesome in my opinion. Wish I could help program but if you guys needed a webhoster let me know I will help you guys out with that [;)]
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0 Espen over 23 years ago in reply to Resistance

Still missing the big initiative here.

I've started collecting all the modules needed 4 the firewall. So far I have this spec.

HA (failover and loadbalansing without packet loss ) - ok.
Routing - ok.
Wireless bridge/AP Wlan2Wlan repeater - ok.
DDOS detection - ok.
Dynamic/intelligent rule adding - ok.
PPOE - ok.
chroot env. - ok.
DHCP server/client (for each IF) - ok.
DNS proxy - ok.
web proxy - ok.
mailproxy with AV-gateway (free) - ok.
transparent proxy - ok
secured webserver with php - ok.
Basic webinterface with if and rules - done.
web-if 2 system call (new/updated config transfer) - ok.
Portsan detection - ok.

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0 Espen over 23 years ago in reply to Resistance

Still missing the big initiative here.

I've started collecting all the modules needed 4 the firewall. So far I have this spec.

HA (failover and loadbalansing without packet loss ) - ok.
Routing - ok.
Wireless bridge/AP Wlan2Wlan repeater - ok.
DDOS detection - ok.
Dynamic/intelligent rule adding - ok.
PPOE - ok.
chroot env. - ok.
DHCP server/client (for each IF) - ok.
DNS proxy - ok.
web proxy - ok.
mailproxy with AV-gateway (free) - ok.
transparent proxy - ok
secured webserver with php - ok.
Basic webinterface with if and rules - done.
web-if 2 system call (new/updated config transfer) - ok.
Portsan detection - ok.

Rgds Espen
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0 PabloDiablo over 23 years ago in reply to Espen

Hi Espen,

My knowledge of *BSD is minimal ! But I would like it to test it ! As I earlier said I'm willing to to give some free webspace (max 1 GB/month for traffic) or maybe you would like a bulletinboard ? Let me know....
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0 PabloDiablo over 23 years ago in reply to PabloDiablo

I've got now running PHPNuke ! This can be used immediately !!! [;)]
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0 deeredealer over 23 years ago in reply to PabloDiablo

Espen

quote:

Still missing the big initiative here.

It will probably take getting the pieces to a site so people can start to interact and the word spread.

Good Luck
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0 Espen over 23 years ago in reply to deeredealer

Hi all,

First let me clarify.

This rels. (if we are able to put it all together)
will be 4 FreeBSD (someone will probably port it to other BSDs as well).
The licence for the code we write will be Public domain, the rest is GPL.
I do not need any site I have my own network with web/ftp/mysql/mail/cgi/php/forum etc. already running.
It's 100Mbit unrestricted, but thanks 4 the hosting offerings anyway.
What I need is programmers to do the backend of the firewall. The webinterface itself is no problem. The making of logging, instalation and piecing stuff together, that I need others to take care of.

Rgds Espen
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0 micio over 23 years ago in reply to Espen

hi espen
please could you tell us the address of your
web-site?
thanks
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0 Resistance over 23 years ago in reply to micio

If you are looking for any web site developers let me know ..
I currently own and developed Resistance Imaging
yes I love flash. but I am a graphics person so if you want help just let me know. My contact information is on my site

Resistance
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0 ChristopherL over 23 years ago in reply to Resistance

What firewall program were you thinking of using?
I think the BSD's are semi divided on which is the best.
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0 Espen over 23 years ago in reply to ChristopherL

Since Astaro has come up with a Power License i see no need to put too much effort into this 4 the moment.

If there are any good programmers who want's to do this than i'm game. If not, we'll let it rest 4 now.

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0 emgadmin over 23 years ago in reply to Espen

Why starting a fork?
It's not better to join an existing project to help it to go better ? Something like ipcop.
Ok, it does not run with *bsd , but could have a lot of features in many people will contribute to it.

And the web interface is already done ;>
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0 scottb over 23 years ago in reply to emgadmin

Why not use IPCop was the question? I think that I know the answer... I have used IPcop, and others and have found that some of the features are missing that astaro has not to mention I have found memory leaks ect with even new versions of IPcop... Running astaro and IPcop on the same box at different times of course, I found IPcop to require a reboot more often. Just my 2 cents but I just feel that astaro is better put together and offers a lot of things that small to medium sized buisness use especially the pptp roadwarrior
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