About

Comparison of husk to other firewall compilers/wrappers. Note that I believe each package performs the job it was written for, and both fwbuilder and shorewall are excellent packages. However they didn't fulfill my requirements, so I developed husk.

	huskfw	fwbuilder	shorewall
Graphical User Interface (GUI)	No	Yes	via Webmin
Text Only Interface (TUI)	Yes	???	???
Support for Traffic Shaping	No	Yes	???
Built on top of standard iptables	Yes	Yes	Yes, and other platforms
Language	Perl	Perl	C
IPv6 Support	Yes!	Yes	???

License

For full licensing details, view the complete GPLv2 license.

husk is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

husk is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.