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ClosedBSD 1.0b Released

Posted by timothy on from the minimalism dept.

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.

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  1. Re:IPFW vs. IPTables by NWT · · Score: 3, Informative

    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!

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  2. Re:Why reinvent PicoBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.