Vuurmuur firewall manager

cccc · 12-01-2011, 06:38 AM

hi

Has someone tried Vuurmuur firewall manager:

http://www.vuurmuur.org/trac/

to configure Firewall under Debian?

62chevy · 12-01-2011, 05:17 PM

No I use Shorewall. Your link is broke and I can't find it in the repositories.

cccc · 12-02-2011, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by 62chevy

... and I can't find it in the repositories.

Here is howto add Vuurmuur repo:

http://www.vuurmuur.org/trac/wiki/InstallationDebian

Just add this line:

deb ftp://ftp.vuurmuur.org/debian/ squeeze main

in /etc/apt/sources.list.

62chevy · 12-02-2011, 05:26 PM

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Installing Debian/Ubuntu? packages using APT from the Debian repository

Sadly, Vuurmuur has been removed from the official Debian repositories. The packages were no longer maintained by a Debian maintainer and were in a "orphaned" state for some time already.

For some reason Debian couldn't keep a maintainer for it. For that reason I won't use it. Not that I don't use third party stuff because I do. But because I don't know how to code I want to make sure what I get for a firewall can be trusted. Debian has a reputation they want to keep plus I get any updates needed both security and normal from a source I can trust. Didn't see any advantage to switching either.