Firewall Builder (fwbuilder) is a graphical application that can help you to configure IP traffic filtering. It can compile the filtering policy you define into many specifications, including iptables and various languages used by Cisco and Linksys routers. Separating the actual policy you define and the implementation in this way should let you change what hardware is running your firewall without having to redefine your policy for that platform.

Packages for fwbuilder are available in the Ubuntu Hardy and Fedora 9 repositories. fwbuilder is packaged as a 1-Click install for openSUSE 10.3, but not for version 11 as yet. In this article I’ll build from source on a 64-bit Fedora 9 machine using fwbuilder version 2.1.19. fwbuilder is shipped as two tarballs: libfwbuilder and fwbuilder. You have to install the library first. Install the two packages using the normal ./configure; make; sudo make install procedure.

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