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, Self-Hosted and VMware vSphere Hypervisor apps. The best Shorewall alternative is CacheGuard Gateway, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shorewall are Advanced Policy Firewall, iptablesbuild, ferm and foomuuri.