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Firewall Builder's firewall library helps us make changes quickly and ensure a consistent security configuration across our server farm. As a rapidly ...
Tim N.
VP of Engineering
Firewall Builder is a configuration management application that can be used to configure and manage firewall rules for multiple types of firewalls. This guide will go through the steps of creating a Linux iptables firewall in Firewall Builder and then creating and installing rules created in Firewall Builder onto the firewall.
Conceptually Firewall Builder works the same way no matter what type of firewall is being configured. Firewall Builder is based on the idea of using objects to represent rule elements, such as IP networks Host addresses, and then using these objects to define firewalll rules.
For Linux iptables firewalls after the firewall rules have been created Firewall Builder will generate a shell script file that includes all the iptables commands required to implement the user defined security policy. This script file can also include information required to configure interfaces, static routes and other configuration options.
Once the firewall script file has been created Firewall Builder can use the secure SSH and SCP protocols to transfer the script file to the Linux firewall server and to activate it, or user's can copy the the script file themselves to the server and run it to activate the firewall rules.
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