Introduction
fBuilder is a web-based utility for building and configuring your iptables based Linux firewall.
fBuilder Plus includes many exciting features including:
- A firewall creation wizard
- Edit, insert, and delete capabilities for firewall rules
- Support for user defined chains
- Automatic creation of DMZ in Wizard
- Support for custom protocols
- Options for automatically creating log rules
- File fingerprints for intrusion detection
- Reporting to allow for email reports and alerts
- Support for DHCP users
- log reporting by date/time range, ip, port, protocol, and more
- Export capabilities
fBuilder ships with a pre-configured version of the boa web server, so there is no need to deal with Apache
configuration files. fBuilder can be used with Apache if you desire, however this is an unsupported configuration.
fBuilder works dynamically with the firewall rules that are resident in memory. When a change is made to your
firewall through the fBuilder interface, the change occurs immediately after you hit the 'submit' button. Many
other offerings will use script based processing so your changes don't occur until you have installed the modified
script. We believe that our model of working directly with the rules in memory gives you an advantage because you
will have a quicker response to stopping the progress of an attacker or opening a port so your CEO can get to his
favorite external service.
We highly recommend that you read all of the documentation provided here as it will help understand what you
can do with your Linux firewall and help you harness the power of your fBuilder software.
fBuilder is commercially supported by it's authors InnerTek Software, LLC. Support is handled via email.