Firestarter
 Firestarter is an
Open Source visual firewall program. The software aims to combine ease
of use with powerful features, therefore serving both Linux desktop
users and system administrators.
Use the firewall creation wizard to create a basic firewall,
then streamline it further using the powerful dynamic rules modifiers.
Open and close ports with a few clicks, or stealth your services giving
access only to a select few. Watch the real-time hit monitor
as attackers probe your machine for open ports, in vain.
Firestarter makes full advantage of GNOME
but also works in
most environments.
Firestarter aims to provide a safe and user-friendly firewall
policy¹ by default. While it protects both the firewall host itself as
well as any
client hosts connected to a local network from intrusion attempts, it
does not impose restrictions on the services that the protected hosts
themselves can access.
The main components of the Firestarter interface are:
The firewall wizard guiding the user through configuring the
application the first time you run Firestarter
The status page provides a quick overview of the state of the firewall
as well as allowing the user to start and shut it down
The events page contains the intrusion attempt history of the firewall
The policy page is where access policy is reviewed. The policy alone
determines what is allowed through the firewall
The preferences controls many aspects of the interface, as well as
giving the user the option to enable some additional filtering
functions of the firewall
¹A firewall policy is a set of rules that
together unambiguously for every connection determine whether it is
allowed to pass
through the firewall or not.
Features include:
- User friendly, easy to use, graphical interface
- A wizard walks you through setting up your firewall on your
first time
- Suitable for use on desktops, servers and gateways
- Real-time firewall event monitor shows intrusion attempts
as they happen
- Enables Internet connection sharing, optionally with DHCP
service for the clients
- Allows you to define both inbound and outbound access policy
- Open or stealth ports, shaping your firewalling with just a
few mouse clicks
- Enable port forwarding for your local network in just
seconds
- Option to whitelist or blacklist traffic
- Real time firewall events view
- View active network connections, including any traffic
routed through the firewall
- Advanced Linux kernel
tuning features provide protection
from flooding, broadcasting and spoofing
- Support for tuning ICMP parameters to stop Denial of
Service (DoS) attacks
- Support for tuning ToS parameters to improve services for
connected client computers
- Ability to hook up user defined scripts or rulesets before
or after firewall activation
- Supports Linux Kernels
2.4 and 2.6
- Translations available for many languages
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Equivalents to Windows Software' section.
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Last Updated Thursday, March 31 2011 @ 02:15 PM EST
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