Comments on: Top 5 Best Linux Firewalls

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:56:04 +0000

I agree. So far you have only listed one true firewall. Iptables. The rest are just GUIs that use iptables for those who do not understand the iptables source.

By: kurt

kurt — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:55:21 +0000

I’m using GBWare it is not bad

By: TejasDMT

TejasDMT — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:05:50 +0000

You have mentioned Checkpoint and IPtables where is the ASTARO linux based firewall in this listing. Easy to compatmentalize and has NAT, IDS and Packet rules in place as well. Free for HOME use although would be willing to pay a small annual fee to keep full benefits. Web interface to manage and has excellent throughput. Home users or small business could use a border router with ACLs and/or a Netgear (or eqivalent) in front of Astaro system which would almost provide enterprise equivalent system at very moderate prcing. Couple this with Windows Firewall or other on local workstation and you would have a reasonable secure environment ot work with.

By: Arlequín

Arlequín — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:58:31 +0000

Hello,

I use Arno’s IPTABLES Firewall Script at home.

Regards.

By: Gael

Gael — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:36:48 +0000

I agree with saymoo and rizlox, this is not a good list as what is listed here are front end to edit netfilter and none open source or strictly linux firewall …

By: rizlox

rizlox — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:11:01 +0000

I quote saymoo, and also why the hell Checkpoint is in the list? It is totally closed, very expensive product, yes it’s based on linux like thousands of commercial products but I don’t see the point including in the list… Also the management console runs only on windows!

By: morgan

morgan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:05:56 +0000

The best good console based gui for iptables I have seen is

Vuurmuur:-

http://www.vuurmuur.org/trac/wiki/Features

Screenshots – http://www.vuurmuur.org/trac/wiki/ScreenShots

I use it to share an ADSL modem (ppp0) with the rest of the house, it has most of the advanced features that fwbuilder gives you, but no need for X or any need for iptables knowledge.

By: saymoo

saymoo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:42:03 +0000

Sorry, but this list is rubbish. Most of the list are not firewalls, but firewall managers.
E.g. Shorewall, UFW, and IPCOP, make USE of NETFILTER/IPTABLES, and only provide a gui of some sort to configure the real firewall (again NETFILTER/IPTABLES).
Without IPTABLES those three won’t function, and are dull gui’s without use. IPTABLES however does function on it’s own (config file no gui needed).

So, clear those three out, and then you have a list with firewalls. ooh wait.. PF is not available under Linux, only under BSD’s. So clear that one out too..

so the only firewall left on the list is IPTABLES, not much a list. Unless you count and add IPCHAINS to the list. (pre iptables firewall)

Facts are facts

By: Nackox

Nackox — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:35:53 +0000

These are the most heard firewallas I guess, and iptables, is sure the best knowledgeable in the lista, but right now I’m testing Vuurmuur (on Debian). Its really a nice and simple frontend to netfilter and a powerful firewall manager built on top of iptables