Installation of FWBUILDER - Which packages to take?

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Thu Feb 3 11:41:33 UTC 2005


Alexander Apprich schrieb:
> 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
> 
Thanks Alex,

This would mean, you just really need 1) and 4) - Thanks a lot

;-) Roger




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