BSD Firewalls

[ProHS]

Does anyone know any good firewalls for FreeBSD? I tryed APF and Kiss but i notice there wrote in Linux so i can't find a way as of yet to get it to work. I even sent APF a e-mail and i am now waiting for a response.

[rhoekman]

You can use ipfw that is the sort of native one for BSD..

[ProHS]

That already comes with FreeBSD i am looking for a good 3rd party software like APF or Kiss for Linux, thanks though.

[rhoekman]

Alright.. fwbuilder is in the ports dir as a 3rd party app.. I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for.. http://www.fwbuilder.org/

[ProHS]

I will check out and thank you, is this web based or x11?

[existenz]

Why would't you want to use ipfw?

FreeBSD Handbook - Firewalls (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html)

[rhoekman]

As far as I know there is no webinterface for it at the moment. It will let you build rules for your firewall graphically and then install it. It will however use ipfw on your FBSD box.

Edit: Yes it needs X

[ProHS]

Because firewalls like APF and Kiss are easyer to manage and configure.

[existenz]

But they are not "official" firewalls for FreeBSD. I understand that it could seem difficult but if you understand anything to do with firewalls it takes a few mintues to learn.

ifpw suggested because it is at the kernel level and very powerful. Here is a easy config make if you can't figure how to do it by the handbook http://ipfwgen.sourceforge.net/

Just a thought...