[SOLVED] Fedora Firewall Configuration Utility In Debian

jeremy-passarelli · 05-31-2011, 04:11 PM

Hello! I want to know if I can download Fedora's firewall config utility and convert it to a .deb file using alien. Thanks!

pljvaldez · 05-31-2011, 05:21 PM

Sure you can. But it might not work...

What is the program name? Perhaps there's already a version in Debian's repositories. Or perhaps you can download the source and build a *.deb from that.

jeremy-passarelli · 05-31-2011, 05:57 PM

The package name in Fedora is system-config-firewall. There is nothing in the repos.

pljvaldez · 05-31-2011, 06:18 PM

Looking at the Fedora site, it seems like a gui frontend to iptables. But they also mention what might be some Fedora specific programs (lokkit, anaconda, iptables service and ip6tables service). Debian clearly has something that manages iptables for ip4/ip6, but I'm not sure if they're the same. You can download the tarballs from that site and try to build it, but I don't have any idea if it will function without some rework.

EDIT: There are lots of other gui tools for firewall setup if this doesn't work. Just search for firewall gui and you should get things like Firestarter, fwbuilder, guidedog, guarddog, firehol, etc.

Hungry ghost · 05-31-2011, 06:47 PM

I personally like firestarter and gufw, they're very useful and easy to set up, but I think you can use only one of them (not sure about this, though; anyway, there's not need to use them both at the same time).

deepclutch · 05-31-2011, 10:56 PM

A Simple firewall utility(ncurses based ui) You can use in Debian is "arno-iptables-firewall" .

Quote:

Package: arno-iptables-firewall
Version: 2.0.0.a-2
Installed-Size: 788
Maintainer: Michael Hanke <mih@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: iptables (>= 1.2.11), gawk, debconf (>= 1.3.22) | cdebconf (>= 0.43), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, iproute
Recommends: lynx, dnsutils
Description: single- and multi-homed firewall script with DSL/ADSL support
Unlike other lean iptables frontends in Debian, arno-iptables-firewall
will setup and load a secure, restrictive firewall by just asking a few
question. This includes configuring internal networks for internet access
via NAT and potential network services (e.g. http or ssh).
.
However, it is in no way restricted to this simple setup. Some catch words
of additional features, that can be enabled in the well documented
configuration file are: DSL/ADSL, Port forwarding, DMZ's,
portscan detection, MAC address filtering.
Homepage: http://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/
Tag: admin::monitoring, implemented-in::shell, network::firewall, security::firewall, use::filtering
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/arno-iptables-firewall/arno-iptables-firewall_2.0.0.a-2_all.deb
Size: 140688
MD5sum: 39dd205a022fa56e6a5eb7103bb2843f
SHA1: b620eaa820695c58ee2d3f614aa46332cfd9b3a9
SHA256: 1014072891f6b5c439100f2638c978042e1d0c4e5996bd642c5d00b570d46d1b

jeremy-passarelli · 06-01-2011, 03:52 PM

I already have gufw! Thanks!