Iptables Front End

[digip]

I've seen a lot of questions lately on "how do I configure iptables" but I haven't really seen anyone mention using a GUI front end for it, or any linux firewall alternatives. I'm not strong with the command line fu in linux myself either, so I was wondering what people use as a GUI front end for their configurations. I imagine it would be more useful for looking at things lit up in colors to represent issues as well, vs 100% cli work.

One I've found from googling is http://www.fwbuilder.org/ which seems like it might be what I'm after since it works with multiple different unix/linux based firewalls. Apparently it works with iptables, pfsense, and a variety of others, while all working from within a GUI environment.

What do any of you use for a front end in *nix, whether at home or at work?

[Mr-Protocol]

I would recommend firestarter.

http://www.fs-security.com/

[theSuperman]

ufw

is a front-end for iptables, but it's not a gui. I find it much easier to use that than iptables directly. But firestarter is a good gui alternative. I have had issues with internet connection sharing in Ubuntu 9.10 though.

[Mr-Protocol]

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/gufw-simple-gui-for-ufw-uncomplicated-firewall.html

There is a gui for ufw :P

Looks a lot like firestarter though.

[Infiltrator]

I can't remember when was the last I used IPtables, but I would very much prefer Linux Firewall distributions, such Untangle or Smoothwall. I myself can write iptable tables but I rather use GUI as some mentioned, it makes life a lot easier and takes less time to get it set up and running.