Introduction

What is Firestarter?

Firestarter is a GTK+/GNOME Frontend to the various Firewalling applications available under Linux, including IPchains http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/ipchains/ and IPTables http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/. It's aim is to provide a functional, secure yet easy to use frontend for these firewalling technologies to the GNOME desktop.

Here's a list of some of Firestarter's features:

GNOME integrated

Supports IPChains & IPTables

Advanced kernel tuning features

NoteThis is a work in progress
 

Firestarter is currently under heavy development. It relies on both IPChains or IPTables, as well as a correctly configured kernel which is also undergoing heavy development. Firestarter lacks some features, but is usable and gets better each day. Please help improve it by reporting any bugs you find or features you would like added. You should do this by submitting reports at Bugzilla or with the GNOME Bug Report Tool (known as bug-buddy at the command line).