Firewalls

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A firewall is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network (which could be just one machine). Firewalls can be implemented
in only hardware or software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks
connected to the Internet, especially intranets. All messages entering or leaving the intranet pass through the firewall, which examines each message and
allows, proxys, or denies the traffic based on specified security criteria.

The firewalls listed in this article are overwhelmingly based on the iptables program. Consider configuring the iptables process yourself according to its wiki
page (listed below) to keep to the "The Arch Way".

There are many posts on the forums about different firewall apps and scripts so here they all are condensed into one page - please add your comments about
each firewall, especially ease of use and a security check at Shields Up (http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2).

Note: Checks at Shields Up are only a valid measure of your router should you have one in the LAN. To accurately evaluate a software firewall, one needs
to directly connect the box to the cable modem.

Contents
1 Firewall guides and tutorials
1.1 External firewall tutorials
2 iptables
2.1 Console frontends
2.2 Graphic frontends
3 nftables
4 Other
5 See Also

Firewall guides and tutorials

Simple stateful firewall - Setting up a comprehensive firewall with iptables.
Uncomplicated Firewall - the wiki page for the simple iptables frontend, ufw (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=ufw), provides a nice tutorial
for a basic configuration.
Router Setup Guide - A tutorial for turning a computer into an internet gateway/router.

External firewall tutorials

http://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/ A complete and simple tutorial to iptables.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html Masq is a form of Network Address
Translation or NAT that allows internally networked computers that do not have one or more registered Internet IP addresses to have the ability to
communicate to the Internet via your Linux boxes single Internet IP address.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO/ Masquerading, transparent proxying, port forwarding, and other forms of Network Address
Translations with the 2.4 Linux Kernels.

iptables
The Linux kernel includes iptables as a built-in firewall solution. Configuration may be managed directly through the userspace utilities or by installing one of
several GUI configuration tools.

Console frontends

Arno's firewall Secure firewall for both single and multi-homed machines. Very easy to configure, handy to manage and highly customizable.
Supports: NAT and SNAT, port forwarding, ADSL ethernet modems with both static and dynamically assigned IPs, MAC address filtering, stealth port
scan detection, DMZ and DMZ-2-LAN forwarding, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding, extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to
prevent log flooding, all IP protocols and VPNs such as IPsec, plugin support to add extra features.

http://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/ || arno-iptables-firewall (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arno-iptables-firewall/)AUR

ferm Tool to maintain complex firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. It allows the entire firewall
rule set to be stored in a separate file, and to be loaded with one command. The firewall configuration resembles structured programming-like language,
which can contain levels and lists.

http://ferm.foo-projects.org/ || ferm (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=ferm)

 Firehol Language to express firewalling rules, not just a script that produces some kind of a firewall. It makes building even sophisticated firewalls
easy - the way you want it.

http://firehol.sourceforge.net/ || firehol (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firehol/)AUR

Firetable Firewall with "human readable" syntax.

http://projects.leisink.net/Firetable || firetable (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firetable/)AUR

Shorewall High-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files.

http://www.shorewall.net/ || shorewall (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=shorewall)

ufw Simple front-end for iptables.

https://launchpad.net/ufw || ufw (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=ufw)

PeerGuardian Linux Privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge block lists (thousands or
millions of IP ranges).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian/ || pgl-cli (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pgl-cli/)AUR

Vuurmuur Powerful firewall manager. It has a simple and easy to learn configuration that allows both simple and complex configurations. The
configuration can be fully configured through an ncurses (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=ncurses) GUI, which allows secure remote
administration through SSH or on the console. Vuurmuur supports traffic shaping, has powerful monitoring features, which allow the administrator to
look at the logs, connections and bandwidth usage in realtime.

http://www.vuurmuur.org/ || vuurmuur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vuurmuur/)AUR

Graphic frontends
Firestarter Good GUI for iptables writen on GTK2, it has the ability to use both white and black lists for regulating traffic, it is very simple and easy
to use, with good documentation available on their website.

http://www.fs-security.com/ || Firestarter (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/Firestarter/)AUR

Firewall Builder GUI firewall configuration and management tool that supports iptables (netfilter), ipfilter, pf, ipfw, Cisco PIX (FWSM, ASA) and
Cisco routers extended access lists. The program runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows and macOS and can manage both local and remote
firewalls.

http://www.fwbuilder.org/ || fwbuilder (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=fwbuilder)

firewalld Daemon and graphical interface for configuring network and firewall zones as well as setting up and configuring firewall rules.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD || firewalld (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=firewalld)

Gufw GTK-based front-end to ufw (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=ufw) which happens to be a CLI front-end to iptables (gufw->ufw-
>iptables), is super easy and super simple to use.

http://gufw.org/ || gufw (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=gufw)

PeerGuardian Linux Privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge block lists (thousands or
millions of IP ranges).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian/ || pgl (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pgl/)AUR

kcm-ufw KDE alternative to Gufw.

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=137789 || kcm-ufw (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kcm-ufw/)AUR

nftables
nftables is a netfilter project that aims to replace the existing ip-, ip6-, arp-, and ebtables framework. It combines a simple syntax with feature parity and
performance benefits over iptables.

Other
EtherApe Graphical network monitor for various OSI layers and protocols.

http://etherape.sourceforge.net/ || etherape (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=etherape)

Fail2ban Bans IPs after too many failed authentification attempts against common daemons.
 http://www.fail2ban.org/ || fail2ban (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=fail2ban)

See Also
http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls - Debian Wiki's list of firewalls

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