Firewall Builder Articles and Papers

Old Firewall Builder Users Guide This Guide was written for Firewall Builder v1.0. Even though the GUI screenshots do not match the latest version, general principles have not changed and the guide may still be useful. Firewall Builder Users Guide (3.8Mb pdf)

My presentation on DFN-CERT Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, February 2004

Here is the article published in 11th DFN-CERT Workshop materials. It can serve as a good technical summary or a white paper on the project.

                    Firewall Builder
                  Vadim Kurland, 11th DFN-CERT Workshop,
                  Hamburg, Germany, February 2004, ISBN 3-00-012959-6
                

The presentation is available on DFN-CERT web site

"Getting Started" Guides

• Linux Journal has published an article “Paranoid Penguin: Using Firewall Builder” by Mick Bauer in their May and June volumes. You can find it online here: Part I  and   Part II. I highly recommend it as one of the best “getting started” guides for Firewall Builder.

• Firewall Builder: A firewall configuration GUI article in Free Software Magazine (July 2007)
• Getting Started with Firewall Builder by Christian Barmala

Other outside links

• Firewall Builder - The Easy Way Out of IPTables
• Building firewall rulesets with GUI (in German)
• Workshop: desktop firewall on Linux 2.4 (in German)
• Schneller mauern. Mit dem Firewall Builder schneller zu iptables-Regeln. (in German)
• Platform-Independed Firewall Policy Representation, by Vadim Zaliva
• Firewall Policy Modeling, Analysis and Simulation: a Survey, by Vadim Zaliva (pdf)