Firestarter (firewall)

{{Short description|Personal firewall}}

{{Primary sources|date=March 2010}}

{{Other uses|Firestarter (disambiguation){{!}}Firestarter}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Firestarter

| logo =

| screenshot = Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Firestarter.png

| caption = Screenshot of the Firestarter window

| developer = Firestarter developers

| released =

| programming language =

| operating system = Linux

| language =

| discontinued = yes

| genre = firewall

| license = GNU General Public License

| website = {{URL|sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/}}

}}

Firestarter is a personal firewall tool that uses the Netfilter (iptables/ipchains) system built into the Linux kernel. It has the ability to control both inbound and outbound connections. Firestarter provides a graphical interface for configuring firewall rules and settings. It provides real-time monitoring of all network traffic for the system. Firestarter also provides facilities for port forwarding, internet connection sharing and DHCP service.

Firestarter is free and open-source software and uses GUI widgets from GTK+. Note that it uses GTK2 and has not been upgraded to use GTK3 so the last Linux distributions it will run on are Ubuntu 18, Debian 9, etc.