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Firestarter

The latest version of Firestarter can always be found at

<http://www.fs-security.com>

Firestarter is a complete firewalling tool for Linux. 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 takes full advantage of GNOME but will work in most environments.

See the "INSTALL" file for installation instructions.

Major version history

1.0.0 - Redesigned interface, outbound filtering 0.9.0 - GNOME 2 version
0.8.0 - GUI Installer improvements, Stateful Checking (Linux 2.{4/5} only) added 0.7.0 - Port Forwarding, Automatic Trojan / IANA Reserved Address Space Blocking 0.6.0 - Improved Wizard, ToS Configuration Support 0.5.0 - Linux 2.4 support
0.4.0 - IP Masquerade support
0.3.0 - Dynamic rules
0.2.0 - Firewall hit display
0.1.0 - Firewall wizard

Requirements

A machine running Linux kernel version 2.4 or 2.6 with Linux IP Firewalling Tables (iptables) version 1.2.3 or higher

GNOME 2.6 (For example, Fedora Core 2, SuSE 9.2, Mandrake 10.1 or newer)

Legal Information

Firestarter is released under the GPL. See the COPYING file for more information.

Firestarter is distributed without any warranty, either expressed or implied.

Contact Information

Send bug reports, patches, feature requests etc. to <tomas@fs-security.com> Contributors are acknowledged in the CREDITS file.