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Guarddog

Guarddog

Guarddog is a firewall generation/management utility. 

Guarddog is aimed at two groups of users, namely novice to intermediate users who are not experts in TCP/IP networking and security, and those users who do not want the hassle of dealing with cryptic shell scripts and ipchains/iptables parameters. It allows you simply specify which protocols should be allowed and requires no knowledge of port numbers.  Generates scripts for ipchains.




 Guarddog 2.6.0

Price
Free to download

Size
1.0MB
License

GNU General Public License

Developer
Simon Edwards

Website
www.simonzone.com

System Requirements
Requires either KDE 3 and Linux kernel series 2.2 or higher

Support Sites:
Guarddog Manual, Linux.com, TUX Magazine, Miling List

Selected Reviews:
Softpedia

Features include:

  • Easy to use goal oriented GUI
  • Application protocol based. Unlike other tools, Guarddog does not require you to understand the ins and outs of IP packets and ports. This also reduces the chances of configuration mistakes being made which are a prime source of security holes.
  • Lets you maintain and modify the firewall in place.
  • Hosts/networks can be divided into Zones. Different zones can have different security policies for different.
  • Supports router configurations.
  • Runs on KDE 2 or 3, and Linux 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 series kernels.
  • Supports advanced Linux 2.4+ iptables features such as connection tracking and rate limited logging.
  • Firewall scripts can be Imported/Exported for use on machines other than the current one.
  • DHCP support.
  • Uses a "what is not explicitly allowed, is denied" philosophy. Fail-safe design.

Guarddog supports a huge list of network protocols: FTP, SSH, Telnet, Linuxconf, Corba, SMTP, DNS, Finger, HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, POP2, POP3, SUN RPC, Auth, NNTP, NETBIOS Name Service, NETBIOS Session Service, IMAP, Socks, Squid, pcANYWHEREstat, X Window System, Traceroute, ICQ, PowWow, IRC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ping, Quake, QuakeWorld, Quake 2, Who Is, Webmin, ICMP Source Quench, ICMP Redirect, Real Audio, Line Printer Spooler, syslog, NTP, NetMeeting, Gnutella, LDAP, LDAP-SSL, SWAT, Diablo II, Nessus, DHCP, AudioGalaxy, DirectPlay, Halflife, XDMCP and Telstra's BigPond Cable, CDDB, MSN Messenger, VNC, PPTP, Kerberos, klogin, kshell, NIS, IMAPS, POP3S, ISAKMP, CVS, DICT, AIM, Fasttrack, Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster, Blubster, Direct Connect, WinMX, Yahoo! Messenger, AH, ESP, Jabber, EsounD, Privoxy, eDonkey2000, EverQuest, ICP, FreeDB, Elster, Yahoo games, Legato NetWorker backups, Novell Netware 5/6 NCP, Bittorrent, rsync, distcc, Jabber over SSL, PGP key server, Microsoft Media Server and gkrellm.

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Last Updated Sunday, April 20 2008 @ 03:53 AM EDT


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