Software:Firestarter (firewall)

Short description: Personal firewall

Firestarter

Screenshot of the Firestarter window
Developer(s)	Firestarter developers
Final release	1.0.3 (January 29, 2005) [±]
Operating system	Linux
Type	firewall
License	GNU General Public License
Website	sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/

Firestarter is a personal firewall tool that uses the Netfilter (iptables/ipchains) system built into the Linux kernel. It has the ability to control both inbound and outbound connections. Firestarter provides a graphical interface for configuring firewall rules and settings. It provides real-time monitoring of all network traffic for the system. Firestarter also provides facilities for port forwarding, internet connection sharing and DHCP service.

Firestarter is free and open-source software and uses GUI widgets from GTK+. Note that it uses GTK2 and has not been upgraded to use GTK3 so the last Linux distributions it will run on are Ubuntu 18, Debian 9, etc.

See also

• Uncomplicated Firewall
• iptables
• netfilter

External links

• Firestarter (firewall) on SourceForge.net
• Firestarter manual on SourceForge
• How to Set Up a Firewall in Linux