ClosedBSD 1.0b Released

An unnamed reader submits: "Joshua Bergeron released ClosedBSD 1.0B today. ClosedBSD is a firewall which boots off of a single floppy diskette, and requires no hard drive. It is based off of the FreeBSD kernel, and uses ipfw as it's native ruleset manager. Best of all: it is freely available under the BSD License. ClosedBSD also features an advanced curses based configuration utility for designing and managing firewall rulesets: Screenshots available.

Comments

Re:IPFW vs. IPTables

[NWT]

First of all: NEtfilter/Iptables is Linux stuff, IPFW is from *BSD!
I think iptables has a lot more features than IPFW, and of course, the syntax is different!

Another interesting thing is that the first Linux packet filter was a port (done by Alan Cox) from BSD's IPFW to (the Linux) Kernel 1.1!

Re:Why reinvent PicoBSD?

[Anonymous Coward]

closedbsd has a full menu front end for configuring firewall rules, and an init(8) replacement that looks like it might actually *work*.. this differs from picobsd in many ways.

Re:This has already existed for a LONG time.

[Anonymous Coward]

closedbsd seems to have a LOT more functionality than picobsd has. it looks to me like closedbsd is essentially picobsd combined with a suite of configuration utilities (ncurses/dialog based managers, etc) the screenshots clearly show the differences.. picobsd has no interactive-menu based utility to manage the system, which is what closedbsd seems to offer to its users (interface management, ipfw ruleset management, nat management, realtime connection information, etc)

while picobsd and closedbsd are certainly comparable as far as the style of the distribution. closedbsd looks to bring it more to the end user as far as simplicity and the interface goes.