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by Patrick - Nov 24th 2004 10:24:50
I am a checkpoint certified security admin and engineer. I have used
Astaro (also great) for years. I also create IPTables based firewalls by
hand regularly, and edit previously made IPTables every day as part of my
job and also for fun. I downloaded Firestarter and set it up on my new
Fedora Core 3 machine, and it worked. No problems. Great install, great
initial configuration Wizard, and great editing capabilities. I
especially like the floating app for monitoring and configuring on the
fly. Very nice!!
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A fine piece of software
by Tobtoh - Jan 9th 2002 19:41:04
I was having all sorts of problems with getting my IPtables firewall to
work. After about a week of frustration, I gave up and since I desperately
needed NAT running, turned to the closest GUI firewall config tool that I
could find.
Fortunately, this was Firestarter - a firewall config tool that I heartily
recomment. It is simple to use, works well, has a nice set of features and
also looks good.
My only suggestions for improvement are:
** mention that if you are using IPtables it expects modules. Firestarter
doesn't work if IPtables is integrated into your kernel.
** An easy means of viewing the firewall script that it generates. I want
to be able to use Firestarter to easily get my firewall up and running,
but once it is, I want to learn how the firewall works
** Possibly provide a way to see how the firewall is configured. At the
moment, if I want to confirm that I have blocked the http port, I have to
rerun the config wizard. (Maybe there is a way, but I haven't found
it).
** Possibly also provide some sort of statistical analysis of the results.
ie I would like to know that in the last 24 hours, [ip address] conducted
the highest number of probes etc. Maybe even provide a daily report which
can be emailed ...
However these are only minor improvements. Altogether, Firestarter is a
fantastic tool.
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One of my favourites
by runlevel0 - Aug 12th 2001 12:26:24
the only thing I would include would be a text
widget or a little editor in order to be able to edit
the script, as a feature for advanced users which
uses FS because of being able to set up a
reasonably complete firewall in a few minutes.
--
Ein Pflaster ist eben nur das; ein Pflaster
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Next update?
by Apollyon - Jul 2nd 2000 01:04:21
Good job thus far. When do you expect to release the next version of
FireStarter? Do you think you could enable right-clickable menus in the
log window with options to ignore the IP addresses? Thanks.
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