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Building a better Firewall Builder
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| Back in 1999, Vadim Kurland realized he needed a
| better way to configure a Linux firewall than
| the then-typical process of issuing cryptic
| commands or editing a text-based configuration
| file full of esoteric settings. Fortunately, he
| had lots of experience with commercial firewalls
| that he was able to apply to the problem. The
| result was Firewall Builder, a firewall
| configuration and management tool that lets
| administrators build firewall policies using a
| GUI, then push the configuration to firewall
| machines. It supports the open source firewall
| platforms iptables, pf, ipfw, and ipfilter, as
| well as Cisco ASA (PIX) and IOS access lists,
| and makes all these very different firewalls
| appear the same to the administrator.
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http://sourceforge.net/blog/building-a-better-firewall-builder/
"The Internet? We are not interested in it."
--Bill Gates, 1993
Recent:
New firewall for the Linux kernel
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| The Netfilter development team's Patrick McHardy has released an alpha
| version of nftables, a new firewall implementation for the Linux kernel, with
| a user space tool for controlling the firewall. nftables introduces a
| fundamental distinction between the user space defined rules and network
| objects in the kernel: the kernel component works with generic data such as
| IP addresses, ports and protocols and provides some generic operations for
| comparing the values of a packet with constants or for discarding a packet.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/134938
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