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  Guarddog Firewall 2.0 Almost Ready For Release
Applications Posted by Simon Edwards on Thursday 02/May/2002, @14:15
from the it's-not-paranoia-if-they-are-after-you dept.
Guarddog is an easy to use, yet powerful, firewall for Linux machines running KDE 2 or 3. Guarddog isn't just a pretty GUI face thrown over the standard command-line firewalling utilities, it allows you to quickly and easily specify your firewall policy at a high-level, and then takes care of the rest. The first release candidate, version 1.9.15, is out and now needs heavy user testing. Everyone is encouraged to test it on as many weird and wonderful network setups as possible and report their experiences before the final official 2.0 release. The full announcement follows.

After over a year of development, version 2 of Guarddog firewall is nearing completion. I now wish to invite all in the Linux community to help test the current development version of Guarddog on as many different network configurations and with as many varied network clients as possible to help shake out any bugs. As well as bug reports, I'm also interested in hearing about which features are successfully being used, so that I can try to determine what features can be trusted and which not.

Guarddog is a user-friendly firewall configuration utility for Linux designed for the KDE 2 and KDE 3 desktop environment. Unlike other firewall utilities, Guarddog takes a goal-oriented approach allowing you to specify on a high-level what it must permitted without having to painfully spell out a list of rules.

Features:

  • Direct support for over 60 common network protocols.
  • Allows you to divide machines into different 'Zones'. Where each zone can have different security policies.
  • Uses Linux's native iptables or ipchains packet filtering faciltities.
  • Paranoid and fail-safe by design.
  • Extensive documentation and tutorials.
  • Published under the GNU GPL.

Guarddog is available at:

http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/

RPMs are available for most popular distributions. Information about testing and results are available at:

http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/testing.php

Kind regards,

Simon Edwards
Guarddog Developer
simon@simonzone.com



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a killer app
by ac on Thursday 02/May/2002, @15:19
This app could be a killer app for Linux. Think small Linux boxes acting as user-friendly firewalls. Think power of Linux firewalling with the user-friendliness of Windoze. Hot stuff.
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excellent!
by Carsten Pfeiffer on Thursday 02/May/2002, @15:57
This is a great utility -- I'm using it for about a year already. No need to learn the lowlevel details of firewall configuration, that change with every major kernel version ;)

The only thing I'm missing is a better logging configuration. E.g. in the uni network, my logs get spammed quickly by some windows computers trying to assimilate My Computer ;)
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I love guard dog
by Dog Lover on Thursday 02/May/2002, @17:51
The most user-friendly firewall app for KDE.
Mainstream users do not need to learn all the cryptic codes at all.
Great work! :-)
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Protection against Trojans?
by ZoneAlarm user on Thursday 02/May/2002, @19:06
I'm just wondering if this is the type of firewall that just blocks incoming traffic or if it also can force network access rules onto specific programs on an app-per-app basis? The latter is just as important in high security environments like military institutions where the "enemy" is not just your average script-kiddie.
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remote machines
by Richard Stellingwerff on Friday 03/May/2002, @02:17
Is it possible to use Guarddog to configure a firewall on a remote machine that doesn't have KDE installed?
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linux junky
by Mark on Friday 03/May/2002, @07:32
Does it make sense to have a window manager on a firewall. Won't this open up uneeded ports and have uneeded programs running.
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Kcontrol Module?
by Pablo Liska on Friday 03/May/2002, @12:43
This would make for a nice kcontrol module, if anyone is looking for something to work on.
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firestarter ownz j00 all
by joe99 on Saturday 04/May/2002, @04:24
this program is a wannabe "firestarter" ...keep on believing that kde rocks, and keep on being "OwN3d" by trolltech bitches.
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IP forwarding?
by R2D3 on Monday 06/May/2002, @13:48
I had really hard time getting IP Masquerading/Forwarding to work to share my cable modem connection through my Linux box also to my Windows computer. I have no intent in learning to understand what that what I did to accomplish that really means and how it works, but I'd really like to do the same using a simple GUI-based tool.

So is it possible to use Guarddog to create not only firewall, but also IP Forw/Masq-rules?
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