About:
Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent, which provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, ipfw, OpenBSD pf, Cisco PIX and FWSM, and Cisco routers access lists.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
This release comes with numerous improvements in the iptables policy importer, and fixes for gcc 4.2 and 4.3.

Author:
Vadim Kurland [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.57/10.00 (30 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.fwbuilder.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]iles.php?group_id=5314&package_id=125359
Changelog:
http://www.fwbuilder.org/[..]docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html
RPM package:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5314
Debian package:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5314
OS X package:
http://www.fwbuilder.org/netcitadel/index.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications :: Qt
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C, C++
[Topic]		System :: Networking :: Firewalls

Dependencies: [change]
libxml2 2.4.0 (required)
Qt 3.3 (required)
The XSLT C library for GNOME 1.0.0 (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.1.19	20-May-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Beta	2.1.6	18-Sep-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.1.19	Minor bugfixes	20-May-2008 17:36
2.1.18	Major feature enhancements	08-Apr-2008 17:35
2.1.17	Minor bugfixes	20-Feb-2008 18:36
2.1.16	Major bugfixes	20-Dec-2007 19:05
2.1.15	Minor bugfixes	11-Dec-2007 18:26
2.1.14	Minor bugfixes	11-Sep-2007 18:27
2.1.13	Minor bugfixes	24-Jul-2007 18:54
2.1.12	Major feature enhancements	26-Jun-2007 17:27
2.1.11	Minor bugfixes	01-May-2007 17:12
2.1.10	Minor bugfixes	02-Mar-2007 18:31

 Comments

[»] Distributed firewalls
by blockall - Apr 16th 2002 10:07:11

Any chance you would implement the possibility to push one ruleset to a firewall module (maybe via ssh?) and restart the module and check status?
It would really give a kick to the application (which I really enjoy). And maybe support clustered firewalls?

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[»] Re: Distributed firewalls
by Vadim Kurland - Apr 16th 2002 11:35:54

you can intall and activate firewall policy if you use one of the install scripts available in the Contrib area on our sourceforge page. See FAQ 4.1

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[»] On FreeBSD
by Jens Nykaer - Apr 10th 2002 06:31:41

It's a delight to use the GUI. Very nice work. Installation on a FreeBSD however requires some insight. Add some FAQs around this subject and fwbuilder would definitily get more focus on the FreeBSD platform.

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[»] Re: On FreeBSD
by Vadim Kurland - Apr 10th 2002 14:31:58


> Installation on a FreeBSD however
> requires some insight. Add some FAQs
> around this subject and fwbuilder would
> definitily get more focus on the FreeBSD
> platform.
we are working out last portability issues in the API library and the GUI. A section about building on FreeBSD will be added to the Requirements document at the time of the next release (1.0.2)



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[»] Great product...
by Michael Groves - Feb 15th 2002 23:16:57

Just wanted to say this is a great product, and I hope to continue to get better. This has made configuring iptables rule-bases a dream.

Thanks again for all your work,

Michael Groves :)

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[»] libxml
by Ruben - Sep 20th 2001 15:41:05

You need libxml to install the RPM

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[»] Re: libxml
by Vadim Kurland - Sep 20th 2001 15:59:08


> You need libxml to install the RPM
yes, that's correct. See our Requirements file on the project's home page.

Vadim



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[»] Re: libxml
by Ruben - Sep 20th 2001 17:57:55


> yes, that's correct. See our
> Requirements file on the project's home
> page. Putting that in freshmeat dependencies would be very useful. This way would be easier to download all packages needed. Just a suggestion. nice application


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[»] Re: libxml
by Vadim Kurland - Oct 15th 2001 18:47:59


>
> % yes, that's correct. See our
> % Requirements file on the project's
> home
> % page.
>
> Putting that in freshmeat dependencies
> would be very useful. This way would be
> easier to download all packages needed.
> Just a suggestion. nice application
>
I guess it is better late than never. I added dependencies.

Vadim


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