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Mason
Create a custom Linux packet filtering firewall
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- License
- Not Specified
- Last updated
- Feb 27, 2025
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Overview
What is Mason?
Create a custom Linux packet filtering firewall
In depth
A closer look at Mason
Mason is a tool that helps create a custom Linux packet filtering
firewall. One starts up Mason on the machine(s) that need to do packet filtering, then does all the normal things that this neetwork needs to allow or deny. Mason creates ipchains/ipfwadm rules that can be used in a finished firewall. It includes support files to provide a rudimentary menu for building and a shell that implements the current firewall in SysV boot scripts used in most Linux distributions.
Mason is not for the user that wants a prebuilt firewall that
installs without effort. A number of those are available on the Internet already.
Mason is perfect for:
- Someone trying to build a "default deny" firewall. *1
- Someone that wants very tight control over exactly which protocols are allowed in/out/through a machine.
- Someone with a partial firewall that is having trouble coming up
with the right rules for a few tricky protocols.
- Machines that don't match the design of the prebuilt firewalls.
- Implementing firewalls on routers _and_ individual workstations or
servers - machines that have typically lacked their own individual
firewalls in the past.
firewall. One starts up Mason on the machine(s) that need to do packet filtering, then does all the normal things that this neetwork needs to allow or deny. Mason creates ipchains/ipfwadm rules that can be used in a finished firewall. It includes support files to provide a rudimentary menu for building and a shell that implements the current firewall in SysV boot scripts used in most Linux distributions.
Mason is not for the user that wants a prebuilt firewall that
installs without effort. A number of those are available on the Internet already.
Mason is perfect for:
- Someone trying to build a "default deny" firewall. *1
- Someone that wants very tight control over exactly which protocols are allowed in/out/through a machine.
- Someone with a partial firewall that is having trouble coming up
with the right rules for a few tricky protocols.
- Machines that don't match the design of the prebuilt firewalls.
- Implementing firewalls on routers _and_ individual workstations or
servers - machines that have typically lacked their own individual
firewalls in the past.
Verdict
Should you download Mason?
Mason runs on Linux and is available under the Not Specified license — the installer is 0 KB. We’ve catalogued it under Firewall.
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At a glance
Mason specifications
- Category
- Firewall
- Publisher
- William Stearns
- Last updated
- Feb 27, 2025
- License
- Not Specified
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 673
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