Ever bump into a hot air ballonist manager?

A colleague at work recently told me the joke below. It reminded me of managers in IT environments who make decisions based on factors other than technical relevance, the so called layer 8 level. Ever heard of layer 8? The OSI (7 layer) reference model (physical, link, network, transport, session, presentation, application) is widely referred to in networking technology. Layer 8 refers to variably the "political", "management", "people" or "money" layer, or some other element that is being denigrated as being technically irrelevant and therefore stupid. Layer 8 problems often occur and we never put them in our CVs (read about it here).

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

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