Secure your Linux with Firestarter personal firewall

Firestarter is an open source application, specially designed for Linux system. Its a visual firewall program. Firestarter 1.0 is equipped with powerful features to ensure the usability on both desktop and server.

Publisher Description:

Firestarter is an Open Source visual firewall program. The software aims to combine ease of use with powerful features, therefore serving both Linux desktop users and system administrators.

We strongly believe that your job is to make the high level security policy decisions and ours is to take care of the underlying details. This is a departure from your typical Linux firewall, which has traditionally required arcane implementation specific knowledge.

Firestarter features

Open Source software, available free of charge
User friendly, easy to use, graphical interface
A wizard walks you through setting up your firewall on your first time
Suitable for use on desktops, servers and gateways
Real-time firewall event monitor shows intrusion attempts as they happen
Enables Internet connection sharing, optionally with DHCP service for the clients
Allows you to define both inbound and outbound access policy
Open or stealth ports, shaping your firewalling with just a few mouse clicks
Enable port forwarding for your local network in just seconds
Option to whitelist or blacklist traffic

Download Firestarter

You can follow the links provided below to start downloading Firestarter 1.0:

Ubuntu

Firestarter is available in the Ubuntu universe repository.

To install, open the Applications menu and choose Add/Remove.Select Show: All available applications and search for Firestarter.

Source Tarballs