Articles by vkfwb

  • New Features In Firewall Builder 4.0

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    New Features In Firewall Builder 4.0 Firewall Builder 4.0 is a major upgrade, it adds many improvements across all components of the program. To name a few, it adds support for the high availability firewall configurations; improves the way generated script manages IP addresses and adds ability to manage VLAN, bridge and bonding interfaces; the GUI now has undo/redo facility of unlimited depth and can compile a single rule and immediately show the result. There are many other improvements and changes, all listed in the Firewall Builder 4.0 Release Notes.

  • Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5

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    Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates how branching rules can be built.

  • Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 4

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    Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 4 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates how IPv6 and mixed IPv4+IPv6 configurations can be built.

  • Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 3

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    Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 3 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates generated configurations for iptables, PF and Cisco PIX.

  • Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 2

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    Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 2 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article demonstrates several examples of Access Policy rules and generated configurations for iptables, PF and Cisco PIX.

  • Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 1

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    Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 1 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article explains key principles of the policy or access control rule sets in Firewall Builder. I plan to demonstrate examples of policy rules and how they translate into iptables, pf and Cisco IOS and PIX configurations in the next article of the series.

  • Using Built-in Policy Importer In Firewall Builder

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    Using Built-in Policy Importer In Firewall Builder This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article demonstrates how you can import existing iptables or Cisco router configuration into Firewall Builder.

  • Using DNS Name Object In Firewall Builder

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    Using DNS Name Object In Firewall Builder This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article demonstrates how you can build firewall rules matching DNS A records.

  • Using Address Table Object In Firewall Builder

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    Using Address Table Object In Firewall Builder This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article demonstrates how you can build firewall rules matching sets of ip addresses stored in external files.

  • Using Custom Service Object In Firewall Builder

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    Using Custom Service Object In Firewall Builder This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article demonstrates how you can work with the Custom Service object in Firewall Builder.