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.
 Screenshot of the Firestarter window | |
| Developer(s) | Firestarter developers |
|---|---|
| Final release | 1.0.3 (January 29, 2005) [±] |
| Preview release | None (None) [±] |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | firewall |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | sourceforge |
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.
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References
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edit- Firestarter (firewall) on SourceForge
- Firestarter manual Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine on SourceForge
- How to Set Up a Firewall in Linux
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