Shorewall AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like Shorewall

Shorewall is described as 'The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as “Shorewall”, is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables' and is a Firewall in the security & privacy category. There are six alternatives to Shorewall for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, VirtualBox, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Microsoft Hyper-V Server apps. The best Shorewall alternative is CacheGuard-OS. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Advanced Policy Firewall or iptablesbuild. Other great apps like Shorewall are ferm, foomuuri and HeatShield.

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  1. CacheGuard-OS icon

    CacheGuard-OS

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    All CacheGuard products and services are focused on delivering secured and optimized Web contents to our clients. To achieve that goal we made CacheGuard OS which is our core product. Once installed on a virtual or hardware machine, CacheGuard OS turns it into a powerful Web...

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    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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    • CacheGuard-OS is the most popular Windows alternative to Shorewall.

    • CacheGuard-OS is the most popular commercial alternative to Shorewall.

    • CacheGuard-OS is Paid and ProprietaryShorewall is Free and Open Source

  2. Advanced Policy Firewall

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    Server-based firewall. Reacts to attacks with intelligent abilities to detect malicious attempts to enter and reacting by blocking the IP temporarily. Repeated hits will ban the IP completely.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

    • Advanced Policy Firewall is the most popular Linux alternative to Shorewall.

    • Advanced Policy Firewall is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Shorewall.

    • Advanced Policy Firewall is Free and Open SourceShorewall is also Free and Open Source

  4. iptablesbuild

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    iptablesbuild is effectively a configuration manager for iptables. It is intended to manage iptables configurations in a centralized location for multiple systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  5. ferm

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    ferm is a tool to maintain complex firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. ferm allows the entire firewall rule set to be stored in a separate file, and to be loaded with one command.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  6. foomuuri

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    Multizone bidirectional nftables firewall.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    HeatShield

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    HeatShield is a network firewall management service for Linux servers. A firewall configured by HeatShield prevents unauthorized access to services running on your servers, such as SSH and MySQL. Using HeatShield, you can easily restrict access to these services so that only IP...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     

    • HeatShield is the most popular Web-based alternative to Shorewall.

    • HeatShield is Freemium and ProprietaryShorewall is Free and Open Source
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