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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. We strongly believe that your job is to make the high level security policy decisions and ours is to take care of the underlying details. This is a departure from your typical Linux firewall, which has traditionally required arcane implementation specific knowledge. 

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ipcop

Below, you will find a copy of our Mission Statement. All members of the IPCop Firewall Team strive to meet these goals. By achieving these goals, the IPCop Firewall will be one of the major Linux Firewall distributions in the world. * Provide a stable Linux Firewall Distribution. * Provide a secure Linux Firewall Distribution. * Provide an opensourced Linux Firewall Distribution. * Provide a highly configurable Linux Firewall Distribution. * Provide an easily maintained Linux Firewall Distribution. * Provide an easily configured Linux Firewall Distribution. * Provide reliable Support to the IPCop Linux user base. * Provide an enjoyable environment for the Public to discuss and request assistance. * Provide stable, secure, and easy to implement upgrades/patches for IPCop Linux. * Develop an appreciation for both the Linux and Opensource movements in our user base. * Develop a long lasting relationship with our userbase. * Strive to adapt IPCop to meet the needs of the Internet of Tomorrow. * Further develop the Linux Knowledge base of all Project Members and Users. 

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ipf

IPFilter is a software package that can be used to provide network address translation (NAT) or firewall services. To use, it can either be used as a loadable kernel module or incorporated into your UNIX kernel; use as a loadable kernel module where possible is highly recommended. Scripts are provided to install and patch system files, as required.It comes as a part of the following operating systems: FreeBSD-current (post 2.2) NetBSD-current (post 1.2) xMach Solaris 10 

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m0n0wall

Ever since I started playing with packet filters on embedded PCs, I wanted to have a nice web-based GUI to control all aspects of my firewall without having to type a single shell command. There are numerous efforts to create nice firewall packages with web interfaces on the Internet (most of them Linux based), but none met all my requirements (free, fast, simple, clean and with all the features I need). So, I eventually started writing my own web GUI. But soon I figured out that I didn't want to create another incarnation of webmin – I wanted to create a complete, new embedded firewall software package. It all evolved to the point where one could plug in the box, set the LAN IP address via the serial console, log into the web interface and set it up. Then I decided that I didn't like the usual bootup system configuration with shell scripts (I already had to write a C program to generate the filter rules since that's almost impossible in a shell script), and since my web interface was based on PHP, it didn't take me long to figure out that I might use PHP for the system configuration as well. That way, the configuration data would no longer have to be stored in text files that can be parsed in a shell script – it could now be stored in an XML file. So I completely rewrote the whole system again, not changing much in the look-and-feel, but quite a lot "under the hood". 

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shorewall

The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your requirements. Shorewall can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux system. Shorewall does not use Netfilter's ipchains compatibility mode and can thus take advantage of Netfilter's connection state tracking capabilities. Shorewall is not a daemon. Once Shorewall has configured Netfilter, it's job is complete. After that, there is no Shorewall code running although the /sbin/shorewall program can be used at any time to monitor the Netfilter firewall. Shorewall is not the easiest to use of the available iptables configuration tools but I believe that it is the most flexible and powerful. So if you are looking for a simple point-and-click set-and-forget Linux firewall solution that requires a minimum of networking knowledge, I would encourage you to check out the following alternatives: 

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smoothwall

The SmoothWall GPL project was founded in the summer of 2000, with Lawrence Manning as the principal code author and Richard Morrell acting as project manager. Other early contributors to the project included John Fautley and Tom Ellis, all of whom were living close to Southampton in the south of England. Their goal was to create a minimal Linux distribution that would convert a redundant Intel (or compatible) PC into a hardened Internet firewall device. The first version of SmoothWall was posted to sourceforge.org at the end of August 2000. From these small beginning the project grew rapidly. Soon hundreds of copies were being downloaded every week; then it was thousands. Many more people joined the project team, bringing in new skills, knowledge and the ability to test SmoothWall on telecommunications systems worldwide. Richard sought every possible opportunity to publicise SmoothWall and soon SmoothWall was appearing on magazine cover CDs both in the UK and in many other countries. Even the project founders were amazed just how quickly SmoothWall became so popular. In the early months of the project new versions were released almost weekly, incorporating new features based on software contributions from around the world, along with support for an ever wider array of PC and networking hardware.  

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