Hi,

I'm configuring a debian computer to act as a router for my home network. I want to split my home network into two parts and define different firewall rules for these parts. I also want to use dhcp to make sure every time a computer logs in it gets the same ip but is still able to log in somewhere else.

The biggest problem now is that I have to make some functions able to someone that has never worked with linux before.

I've worked with software routers like pfsense before and I would like a similar web frontend to this. Does anyone know if there is such a piece of software? I'm not using pfsense itself because I don't want to virtualize it and I need some things like the software raid5 and some htpc software I don't want to try to get working on pfsense.

I've previously used webmin untill it was hacked because of an exploit in it so I preferably don't want to use that one. I've been working with the dd-wrt software and something like this would do the trick perfectly!

well, webmin, it it has it's nice parts and it's bad part, like most software.
Exploits do happen, and do get fixed too.

anyway, you can still use webmin for internal use, safely, by not allowing external connections to it. (internet)
(here comes the firewall to block it off)

another option would be to build a complete management script yourself for the other users, they can use.
e.g. a bash script (with ccdialog/dialog for nice windowish effects), and use it as a shell for a specific user.
As soon as that user logs in with ssh, it gets that menu, and only that menu. And can do the things you programmed it to do.
(i use such "shell" too, for some administrative things (edit configurations through reading inputs from user, etc), for co-"admins", and it works perfectly)

but this could also be done with e.g. perl, python, tcl, java, php, etc..

good luck.

But wouldn't there be a webinterface to do this?
I'd love to fix something that nice one day but now the problem is I have to fix it within a week and it's my dad that has to be able to do these things.
And because I had to do certain security related things in school I thought it would be fun to use it for our home network. So we bought a bunch of hard disks and some other computer parts, I put it together, created a raid 5 array, installed nagios(for fun) and backuppc(for our backups) I just need something to configure nat, dhcp and some rules for the internet access times.
I have been looking at webmin, bifrost, vuurmuur, and some others but they just don't seem to do what I want them to

I'm now rearranging the computer and I might add a full desktop environement to it so I can have a workaround, I need the desktop for the htpc functions as well. then I can use firestarter to do this.