Firewall Gui required !

[finux]

I would be nice to find a simple Firewall GUI in the next pc-bsd edition.

[pcbsdusr]

I agree, it's a must-have :D

[Charles]

I think Tim (Solarin) is working on it...

[pcbsdusr]

well, it's not on the todo list...

http://www.pcbsd.org/devel/todo/

but i hope you are right. :D

[skrowl]

Would it be possible to create a firewall tool such as the one in Windows XP SP2 that blocks all incoming by default and then says "Program X is attempting to do Y, do you want to allow this?"

[Solarin]

I think Tim (Solarin) is working on it...

Actually, I'm not :P

But agreed, we should have something. I'll add it to the ToDo list.

[Charles]

:lol:

[nhat]

A GUI like "guardog" would be great.
Or something simpler like Suse Firewall.

[Tsuroerusu]

A GUI like "guardog" would be great.
Or something simpler like Suse Firewall.
Why not just port the SUSE firewall to PC-BSD?? SUSE is a completely open source distribution now, since Novell was so kind and GPL'ed YaST.

[cb22]

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[Tsuroerusu]

Well there go, I guess it's just a matter of time before PC-BSD has a lot of great management utilities.

[drumbsd]

Why not just port the SUSE firewall to PC-BSD?? SUSE is a completely open source distribution now, since Novell was so kind and GPL'ed YaST.

SUSE is a distribution based on Linux, not FreeBSD. So i think that SUSE firewall is only wrapper to iptables. FreeBSD doesn't use iptables as firewall.
Anyway, FreeBSD can use 3 different firewalls (pf, ipfw and ipf) so if we want
develop a gui, we have to choice which firewall support.

[antik]

Why not just port the SUSE firewall to PC-BSD?? SUSE is a completely open source distribution now, since Novell was so kind and GPL'ed YaST.

SUSE is a distribution based on Linux, not FreeBSD. So i think that SUSE firewall is only wrapper to iptables. FreeBSD doesn't use iptables as firewall.
Anyway, FreeBSD can use 3 different firewalls (pf, ipfw and ipf) so if we want
develop a gui, we have to choice which firewall support.

Simpler and coolest way is to use PF. :D

[Sparkfist]

I'm aware that Linksys is Linux based but I think something simalar the setup they have would be good. You have about 4 or 5 tabs one just for opening/closing spesific ports.

Thought this would be a good idea on the way it should look.

[TerryP]

The best fire wall I've ever used is Kerio 2.1.5 under Windows. (Also free for personal use)

It's wonderful imho, but even if Kerio had *nix support, the current versions are like some other crappy brand of fire wall I will not mention, while the older version I use was reccomended by a few 20 year vet's of living on computers.

[Charles]

I vote for a PF GUI.
That would rock 8)

[pcbsdusr]

i guess we all vote, but noone has steped forward to do this :)