BullDog

This article, in whole or in part, is based on material taken from the BullDog project's homepage. This material is used here, and is placed under the Creative Commons (by-sa) license, with permission of the author, Mar Matthias Darin, who is also BullDog's main developer.

BullDog is a powerful but lightweight firewall for heavy use systems. With many features, this firewall can be used by anyone who wants to protect his/her systems.

This system allows dynamic and static rules sets for maximum protection and has several advance features.

This firewall will work for the hobbyist or a military base. Generation 7 is a complete rewrite and redesign from scratch. Generations 2 to 6 died in agony of failures in the testing and development of this version.

Be prepared to spend some time setting this up. If you are looking for a "quick fix", then you are on the wrong site. BullDog is NOT a quick fix, but rather one step in a complete security policy.

Updated vigorously.

Its is covered by the GPL and is FREE and always will be. The developer encourage and welcome anyone who wants to port and/or provide ideas/code to better this software.

I would like to see this software developed into a new breed of firewall that provides the best of security with ease of use.

This software was developed on Linux v2.2.16-17 and v2.4 with 64 megs to 1 Gig of RAM and supports ipchains and iptables. Bulldog will NOT run on Windows systems.

External links

• Homepage (tanaya.net)
• BullDog Firewall Domain Database (Currently ~12G, updates realtime)