Download Firewall 0.8 Beta 1

To configure and manage a firewall that includes net filter/iptables you can use the Firewall program. This firewall makes life a little easier for a system administrator by taking the complexity out of configuring the net filter. Via the interface you can clearly indicate rules, hosts, groups, zones, interfaces and services and read the log files in real-time. For an overview of a number of screenshots, we refer you to this page. The developers released Firewall 0.8 beta 1 a few days ago with the following list of changes:

Version 0.8beta1:

• Work around a buggy Jaunty kernel that doesn’t properly update /proc/net/ip_tables_targets and /proc/net/ip_tables_matches. Fixes #84.
• Add init info to the Debian init script. Copied from the official Debian init script for firewall by Daniel Baumann. Should fix #85.
• Apply patches from ticket #89 by Matthijs Kooijman, in preparation of allowing optional more relaxed permission handling (See #88). Thanks Matthias!
• Change the way iptrafvol.pl is executed. Should fix #68.
• Don’t forget to set ip_forwarding when LOG target or limit match support hasn’t been detected. Fixes #82.
• Handle text input or rule separator lines better. Fix #73.
• Check in initial version of a bash/dialog bash quick setup wizard. A script that aimed at creating a working, but simple, Firewall configuration quickly.
• Fix LOAD_MODULES loading from config file.
• Enable executing the wizard through firewall_conf –wizard.