Firewall Builder is a multi-platform firewall configuration and management system. It 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, this provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, ipfw, OpenBSD pf and Cisco PIX. What's New: Version 2.0.3: This release improves support for the PF firewall by always using tables in policy rules; it also uses syntax "! " for negation, assignes "rdr" rules to interfaces and adds "flags S/SA" to policy rules that keep state. This release significantly improves optimizer for iptables and adds an automatically generated rule to block packets that correspond to an INVALID state Built-in policy installer can compress firewall policy script before it is installed in flash memory on Linksys/Sveasoft firewall; this allows for much larger policy to be used on Linksys. Script compression is optional. Built-in policy installer can be used to test new policy rules with automatic roll-back to the previous version of the policy after specified interval of time. This feature helps to work around errors in the policy that block access to the firewall from the management workstation. |  |
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