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Until there's a community for Enterprise Networking you have to suffer my meme. (lemmy.world)

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[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

on the contrary, CLI is the BEST way to deal with firewall rules.

[–] Lodra@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Personally, I'd take it a step further. Firewall rules should be defined as code in a git repo. So if you're building rules in a gui, you're simply doing it wrong. While a cli and/or api should be used, that should be automated and invisible to a human.