Getting Started | Page 1

The first page of the New Firewall wizard appears. In this page of the wizard we can enter the name for the new firewall object (here it is "guardian"), its platform ("iptables") and its host OS ("Linux 2.4/2.6").

The name of the new firewall object can be anything you want. However, if you want to use SNMP to populate the interface objects, or if you want to use DNS lookups to populate IP address objects, you must name the firewall object the same name as the actual firewall machine.

There are three ways a new firewall can be created: you can use a pre-configured template firewall object, create it from scratch, or use SNMP to create a firewall object with interfaces but an empty policy. This turorial demonstrates the first method, using a template object.

We are going to use one of the standard templates distributed with Firewall Builder, so we'll leave the standard template library path and name in the Template file input field. Click Next to move on to the next page of the tutorial.