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WaterRoof is a firewall management frontend with bandwidth tuning, NAT setup, port redirection, dynamic rules tracking, live connections blocks, predefined rule sets, wizard, logs, graphic report and statistics and other features.
With WaterRoof you can set up the IPFW built-in firewall easily and quickly. With the NAT Setup feature you can fine-tune your internet sharing for the home LAN, or you can also set up a full-featured dual-homed firewall for your network.Rules and network option can be stored and loaded at boot time.
WaterRoof is only a frontend so it makes
With WaterRoof you can set up the IPFW built-in firewall easily and quickly. With the NAT Setup feature you can fine-tune your internet sharing for the home LAN, or you can also set up a full-featured dual-homed firewall for your network.Rules and network option can be stored and loaded at boot time.
WaterRoof is only a frontend so it makes
What's New
Version 3.4.2:
- Changed licensing model. WaterRoof is now distributed under the terms of the NLPL license. More info here. WaterRoof is now free and open source
- fixed minor bugs
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
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| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
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| Date:08 Sep 2011 |
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WaterRoof is a firewall management frontend with bandwidth tuning, NAT setup, port redirection, dynamic rules tracking, live connections blocks, predefined rule sets, wizard, logs, graphic report and statistics and other features.
With WaterRoof you can set up the IPFW built-in firewall easily and quickly. With the NAT Setup feature you can fine-tune your internet sharing for the home LAN, or you can also set up a full-featured dual-homed firewall for your network.Rules and network option can be stored and loaded at boot time.
WaterRoof is only a frontend so it makes use of system tools: this means that when you have finished configuring/testing your firewall, you can safely delete WaterRoof from your system, without loosing your rules. Bandwidth settings, firewall rules, NAT rules, forwarding, logging and other options will be preserved and activated at boot using launchd, following Apple guidelines.This means that WaterRoof is quite safe because it does not install any strange kernel extension or background daemon. You can also download and check WaterRoof source code, it's open.
WaterRoof can be used to learn how ipfw works: you can use predefined rule sets to test firewall behaviour, or you can use the wizard to start from scratch with a step-by-step configuration.But WaterRoof can also be used to deeply configure a ipfw firewall/router, using every ipfw option including traffic shaping (dummynet queues).
English documentation included. Source code available at my web site. WaterRoof is freeware and open-source.
With WaterRoof you can set up the IPFW built-in firewall easily and quickly. With the NAT Setup feature you can fine-tune your internet sharing for the home LAN, or you can also set up a full-featured dual-homed firewall for your network.Rules and network option can be stored and loaded at boot time.
WaterRoof is only a frontend so it makes use of system tools: this means that when you have finished configuring/testing your firewall, you can safely delete WaterRoof from your system, without loosing your rules. Bandwidth settings, firewall rules, NAT rules, forwarding, logging and other options will be preserved and activated at boot using launchd, following Apple guidelines.This means that WaterRoof is quite safe because it does not install any strange kernel extension or background daemon. You can also download and check WaterRoof source code, it's open.
WaterRoof can be used to learn how ipfw works: you can use predefined rule sets to test firewall behaviour, or you can use the wizard to start from scratch with a step-by-step configuration.But WaterRoof can also be used to deeply configure a ipfw firewall/router, using every ipfw option including traffic shaping (dummynet queues).
English documentation included. Source code available at my web site. WaterRoof is freeware and open-source.
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This is off a clean install of 10.4.11, so I can't understand what is going wrong.
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Security is a issue for everyone, and I think that security tools must be free and open-source. This is the only way to achieve the best results.
I would like to say thanks to every friend that helped me with code and beta testing.
I don't consider WaterRoof and NoobProof as 'my effort' but as 'community needs satisfied by community members.'
My english is very bad, anyway I hope you understand my words.
Regards from Italy
Hany
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PTBCMac reviewed on 09 Aug 2007
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moire reviewed on 18 Jul 2007
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Yes, it is. This is the correct definition of "frontend". WaterRoof is a frontend.
"If you don't understand ipfw this program won't help you as the manual is too vague."
Yes, of course, WaterRoof manual is not IPFW manual. The User manual for WaterRoof is useful for people that want to use my application. If you need to learn IPFW, you need an IPFW manual.
"If this is the case for you you'll be better off sharpening your ipfw skills by manipulating the command line form of ipfw as that is the true way of learning and mastering ipfw"
Yes of course. If you need to add a rule, you can do it using the terminal. It's better.
If you want to change rules order quickly, you want to update dyn.rules often, you want to search logs and see stats/graphs... so you NEED a frontend. If you want to add/remove startup quickly, configure NAT easily, redirect ports, change bandwidth policies... you NEED a frontend.
WaterRoof is a frontend for ipfw, so you must know how to use ipfw. Once you know it, you can speed up your tasks using an ipfw frontend.
Easy.
WaterRoof 1.3 has changed authentication system: now it asks for password only ONE time, when started. And now WaterRoof is CRASH-PROOF.
I'm waiting for your opinions
Thank you
Hany
Thank you again, best regard.
Hany
hany@hanynet.com
www.hanynet.com
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The file /Applications/WaterRoof.app/Contents/Resources/fwanalog/out/alldates.html does not exist. (1)
Sure enough, you can only get as far as /Applicatons/WaterRoof.app/Contents/Resources/fwanalog. Hany, can this be fixed?
Graphic report is saved in /Applications/WaterRoof.app/Contents/Resources/fwanalog/out/ and can be optionally exported to desktop. To make a simple test do the following:
flush rules, add one rule:
1000 deny log ip from any 80 to me
enable firewall logging, open safari and try to browse 3-4 web sites; they should not load; flush your rules and check logs, then generate a graphic report.
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For these reasons the minumum requirements for WaterRoof is Mac OS X 10.4.
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Gazzmanzx6 rated on 08 Dec 2010