Firestarter

[Bret Busby]

Hello.

As the Firestarter project appears to have been abnadoned and the
Firestarter firewall application appears to now be unsupported, due to
the project having apparently been abandoned, I am wondering whether any
similarly easy to use graphical firewall utility exists for Linux.

Before installing Firestarter, about a year ago, I had been using
Smoothwall Express 2 (I had been unable to upgade it), but when I had to
replace the firewall, I could not get Smoothwall Express 3 working - it
was simply too difficult (Hey, that's an interesting use for a now
apparently obsolete acronym; STD = Simply Too Difficult).

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
....................................................

[Eric MacAdie]

I like Firewall Builder: fwbuilder.org

- Eric MacAdie

Post by Bret Busby
Hello.
As the Firestarter project appears to have been abnadoned and the
Firestarter firewall application appears to now be unsupported, due to
the project having apparently been abandoned, I am wondering whether
any similarly easy to use graphical firewall utility exists for Linux.
Before installing Firestarter, about a year ago, I had been using
Smoothwall Express 2 (I had been unable to upgade it), but when I had
to replace the firewall, I could not get Smoothwall Express 3 working
- it was simply too difficult (Hey, that's an interesting use for a
now apparently obsolete acronym; STD = Simply Too Difficult).
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
....................................................

[Scott Ferguson]

Post by Eric MacAdie
I like Firewall Builder: fwbuilder.org
- Eric MacAdie

Post by Bret Busby
Hello.
As the Firestarter project appears to have been abnadoned and the
Firestarter firewall application appears to now be unsupported, due to
the project having apparently been abandoned, I am wondering whether
any similarly easy to use graphical firewall utility exists for Linux.
Before installing Firestarter, about a year ago, I had been using
Smoothwall Express 2 (I had been unable to upgade it), but when I had
to replace the firewall, I could not get Smoothwall Express 3 working
- it was simply too difficult (Hey, that's an interesting use for a
now apparently obsolete acronym; STD = Simply Too Difficult).
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
....................................................

Guarddog works nicely on KDE, don't know about GNOME.
If you're looking to replace Smoothwall, you can use a minimal headless
Debian. You can install Webmin for a Smoothwall-like experience, or
(also not Debian) IPCop which is the old, Open fork of Smoothwall.

Webmin makes iptables easier for new users, it also has a module for
Shorewall. Alternatively you can use Guarddog on another machine to
create an iptables policy and just export it to your Debian firewall.

Kind regards