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.
This document describes version 0.8-CVS of Firestarter. It should be considered as a work in progress. It should also be remembered that Firestarter is under heavy development and is therefore not feature-complete or polished to a complete standard.
Here's a list of some of Firestarter's features:
GNOME integrated
Uses global GNOME themes and settings
Translations available for many languages
CORBA used for automation
Extensive Drag and Drop support
Supports IPChains & IPTables
Supports both internal and user-defined rulesets
Inbuilt filtering of known trojan and trouble ports
Support for Individual services configuration
Support for tuning ICMP parameters to stop Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
Support for tuning ToS parameters to improve services for connected client computers
Support for NAT and Masquerading functions
Advanced kernel tuning features
Supports glibc's Sysctl tuning to protect the firewall from flooding, broadcasting & spoofing
Configurable custom logfile support
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