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Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I currently use TinyWall Firewall, it works very well, it's small/portable, no complaints I even donated to the Dev but I would really prefer open source, also it needs to be user friendly like TinyWall so my non-tech family members can/will use it like they do with TinyWall.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What's wrong with the built in windows firewall? It works well, has a GUI to add rules, etc.. You don't even need to touch it on a default setup for most people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Because it's awful to use, counter-intuitive, and fucking breaks network connectivity all the time by switching private networks to public on a whim.

Fuck that piece of shit for that reason alone. I've seen it fuck domain controllers doing this, when "supposedly" it can't do this on a DC. Know what happens then? I can't RDP to the server from it's own local network.

This is such a problem we run a powershell script on a schedule to ensure the connections remain private.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

TinyWall doesn't change the firewall, it's just an alternative GUI... like setting it from PowerShell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Could you share that script? Sounds like a nifty grassroots tech solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I haven't had that happen unless my gateway or DHCP server changes, but on a server wouldn't adding the rules to both public and private profiles solve that too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

But he's not using it in a domain environment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This. There really is no point in installing something like tinywall, when there is a built in firewall that has more functionality (granted its much less user friendly).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

TinyWall is a simplified GUI for the Windows firewall... some may like it, some may not.