Installation of FWBUILDER - Which packages to take?

[Alexander Apprich]

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