My talk on 10th Libre Software Meeting

I gave a talk about Firewall Builder on 10th Libre Software Meeting in Nantes, France. Slides are available here

New Users Guide is now available for download

360 pages of detailed documentation on all aspects of the program, screenshots, examples of policy and nat rules, examples of generated iptables, pf, cisco configurations and more. 12Mb PDF. Download it here.

Firewall Builder 3.0.5 released

This is a bug-fix release that improves program stability. This release is recommended for production use, everybody is encouraged to upgrade. We now offer deb and rpm repositories, the "stable" repositories now host packages v3.0.5-b1076. This page explains how to set up apt and yum to use our repositories.

New HOWTO: "Using IP Service Object in Firewall Builder "

This HOWTO demonstrates how IP service object can be used to match ip protocol by number, ip options (lsrr, ssrr, timestamp and others), as well as TOS or DSCP codes. Examples for iptables, PF and IOS access lists conclude this HOWTO.

New HOWTO: Using Built-in Policy Importer

Did you know that you can import existing iptables or Cisco router configuration into fwbuilder ? This HOWTO explains how to do this.

New HOWTO: Using Addressable Objects in Firewall Builder

This HOWTO explains how objects that translate into IP addresses or groups of addresses can be configured and used in rules. This includes IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, IPv4 and IPv6 networks, physical address, address range, host object and group of addressable objects. The HOWTO includes screenshots and lots of examples of rules and corresponding generated configuration for iptables, PF, Cisco IOS access lists and PIX.

New HOWTO: Using Advanced Object Types in Firewall Builder

This HOWTO explains how Address Table, DNS Name and User Service objects work when used in rules of IPv4 and IPV6 policies of iptables and PF firewalls.