Installation of FWBUILDER - Which packages to take?
Alexander Apprich
a.apprich at science-computing.de
Thu Feb 3 11:27:11 UTC 2005
Hi Roger,
Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am interessted in installing fwbuilder (for the first time) so in the
> extras i found the following:
>
> 1) fwbuilder-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm 23-Jan-2005 21:22 1.3M
> 2) fwbuilder-ipf-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm 23-Jan-2005 21:22 161K
> 3) fwbuilder-ipfw-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm 23-Jan-2005 21:22 114K
> 4) fwbuilder-ipt-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm 23-Jan-2005 21:22 223K
> 5) fwbuilder-pf-2.0.5-3.i386.rpm 23-Jan-2005 21:22 125K
>
> i haven't installed it yet, but i think i need only packages 1) and 4).
> Or will i miss some functionality without installing the others? I did
> some research, and found that pf is almost used on OpenBSD, but i didn't
> see what ipf and ipfw is differing and what they are good for.
>
from http://www.fwbuilder.org/archives/cat_faq.html
Table 1. Firewall Builder can generate configuration for the following
iptables Linux (kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x)
ipfilter FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris
ipfw FreeBSD, MacOS X
pf OpenBSD
> Can you help? Thaaaaaaaaaaanks :-)
> Roger
>
Hth,
Alex
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