# Firestarter 0.8.x Manual

Copyright © 2001 by Paul Drain

# Introduction

`Firestarter` is a GTK+/GNOME Frontend to the various Firewalling applications available under Linux, including IPchains http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/ipchains/ and IPTables http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/. It's aim is to provide a functional, secure yet easy to use frontend for these firewalling technologies to the GNOME desktop.

This document describes version 0.8-CVS of `Firestarter`. It should be considered as a work in progress. It should also be remembered that `Firestarter` is under heavy development and is therefore not feature-complete or polished to a complete standard.

Here's a list of some of `Firestarter`'s features:

GNOME integrated

- Uses global GNOME themes and settings

- Translations available for many languages

- CORBA used for automation

- Extensive Drag and Drop support

Supports IPChains & IPTables

- Supports both internal and user-defined rulesets

- Inbuilt filtering of known trojan and trouble ports

- Support for Individual services configuration

- Support for tuning ICMP parameters to stop Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

- Support for tuning ToS parameters to improve services for connected client computers

- Support for NAT and Masquerading functions

Advanced kernel tuning features

- Supports glibc's Sysctl tuning to protect the firewall from flooding, broadcasting & spoofing

- Configurable custom logfile support

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