Firehol still rocks!

Kjetil Kjernsmo kjetil at kjernsmo.net
Wed Dec 6 18:08:44 GMT 2023


Dear developers,

Earlier this year, I had a pass over alternatives to Firehol, and started 
rebuilding my firewall, first trying firewalld, had a pass over ufw and reviewed 
a few others. None, I found, came close to the intuitive firewall formulation 
of Firehol. 

I'm still with Firehol, and I just wanted to say this, so that the developers 
know it is still a great piece of software. 

I understand it needs a big effort to change the rule engine to support nft, 
there's a bug open for that at https://github.com/firehol/firehol/issues/352
and that it is hard to commit that much time to it. I have held back posting 
stuff, in the hope that I might myself find time to read up on nft and see if I 
managed to find some time, but I couldn't. Sorry.

Nevertheless, it seems like an important thing to do, so just to encourage it. 
It would be great if someone found the time.

Kind regards,

Kjetil




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