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Thread ID: 50557 2004-10-24 19:21:00 Do I REALLY need a firewall, because... Aporosa (5671) Press F1
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284225 2004-10-25 07:45:00 i run sygate firewall
seems to be fine to me...
even on my 500Mhz.. i can still download things at 15kb/s through adsl

or is it LAN slow down you are having problems with?
heni72847 (1166)
284226 2004-10-25 08:49:00 > Google for:
> source firewall win32

That brought up:
Firewall PApi (tried it, too basic)
and a whole heap of junk

Is there really no good open source firewall projects going on?
alphazulusixeightniner (185)
284227 2004-10-25 09:00:00 There's a few but AFAIK they're all for Linux.

Here's a quick list that Gentoo has, there may be Win32 ports if you're willing to try a few (Anything ipchains/iptables wont....):
$ esearch -S -c firewall
[ N] cutter (1.02): TCP/IP Connection cutting on Linux Firewalls and Routers
[ N] fragroute (1.2): fragroute was written to aid in the testing of network intrusion detection systems, firewalls and basic TCP/IP sta
ck behaviour.
[ N] ftester (0.9): Ftester - Firewall and Intrusion Detection System testing tool
[ N] fwlogwatch (1.0): A packet filter and firewall log analyzer
[ N] snortsam (2.24): Snort plugin that allows automated blocking of IP addresses on several firewalls
[ N] dshieldpy (3.2): Python script to submit firewall logs to dshield.org
[ N] firehol (1.120): iptables firewall generator
[ N] firestarter (0.9.2-r1): GUI for iptables firewall setup and monitor.
[ N] fwanalog (0.6.4): Script to parse firewall logs and analyze them with Analog
[ N] fwbuilder (2.0.0): A firewall GUI
[MN] fwipsec (0.4.2): Firewall scripts that control iptables, FreeS/WAN, and squid.
[ N] gshield (2.8-r2): iptables firewall configuration system
[ N] guarddog (2.0.0): Firewall configuration utility for KDE 3
[ N] ipchains (1.3.10-r1): legacy Linux firewall/packet mangling tools
[ N] ipchains-firewall (1.7.3): IP-Chains Firewall Script
[ N] ipkungfu (0.5.2-r1): A nice iptables firewall script
[ N] iptables (1.2.11-r2): Linux kernel (2.4+) firewall, NAT and packet mangling tools
[ N] kmyfirewall (0.9.6.2): Graphical KDE iptables configuration tool
[ N] knetfilter (3.1.1): Manage Iptables firewalls with this KDE app
[ N] shorewall (2.0.4): Full state iptables firewall
[MN] reaim (0.8): AIM transport proxy over NAT firewalls
[ N] libfwbuilder (2.0.0): Firewall Builder 2.0 API library and compiler framework
[ N] ferm (1.1_pre7): Command line util for managing firewall rules
[ N] hlfl (0.60.0): High Level Firewall Language
[ N] httptunnel (3.0.5): httptunnel can create IP tunnels through firewalls/proxies using HTTP
[ N] monmotha (2.3.8_pre7): MonMotha IPTables-based firewall script.
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