Firewall Builder Release Notes


Version 2.0.3


Released 09/30/04
GUI and compilers v2.0.3 require API library libfwbuilder version 2.0.3

Summary

Firewall Builder GUI v2.0.3 is a maintenance release that includes fixes for bugs discovered since 2.0.2 has been released.

For those who wish to build from source, instructions are outlined in "Install and Build instructions"

Caveats

New version (as of build 421) completely changes the way it loads and activates firewall script on linksys. Old version put the whole script in variable rc_firewall. New one puts script in variable fwb and puts a one-line command in rc_firewall to read the script from fwb and execute it. This was done because of the need to uncompress it when linksys executes command stored in rc_firewall, in other words, rc_firewall needs to be a little script that uncompresses and runs the main firewall script. This is why scripts were separated and rc_firewall has changed compared to the previous versions of fwbuilder.

Reverting from v2.0.3 (build 421 and later) to v2.0.2 requires you to erase nvram variable "fwb" which holds the whole script in the new builds.


New features in the built in policy installer



New features in policy compiler for iptables



New features in policy compiler for PF



Bugs fixed in libfwbuilder API:



Bugs fixed in GUI:



Bugs fixed in iptables policy compiler fwb_ipt:



Bugs fixed in iptables policy compiler fwb_pf:


Last modified: Thu Sep 30 20:16:23 PDT 2004