Firewall with browser access

[jfreak53]

Ok so I have tried ZA, and according to their tech support they do not offer this in their software.

I am looking for a firewall, or it could just be a program that does this only, that allows me to connect to it from my network (say go into the browser and type 192.168.0.5:56 and get a control page), and from there be able to not only configure it but immediately disable/enable web access to port 80 or any other port for that PC.

Any ideas of something like this for windows?

[oracleguy]

Smoothwall (http://www.smoothwall.org/) can do this. You can define any outbound firewall rules you want pretty easily.

[jfreak53]

Hmmm I only see source downloads, has anyone tried to make this work on Windows with MingW?

[oracleguy]

Hmmm I only see source downloads, has anyone tried to make this work on Windows with MingW?
It is a firewall appliance, it isn't a singular program. It requires a dedicated computer. The installer installs, the OS and everything. It is basically a very customized Linux distro for a very specific purpose. You don't need a beefy computer either, for home use anyways. Mine runs on a Pentium II 333MHz computer.

You can do a lot of cool stuff with it, you have multiple zones like for a DMZ and one for your wireless versus the rest of your network. It also can serve as the DHCP, DNS and NTP servers on your network. There is also a mod I wrote for it that lets you track your bandwidth usage per PC or groups of PCs. It also has a proxy server and an IM logger built in too that you can turn on.

[jfreak53]

Oh ok, well thanks, it looks like a sweet little app!! With all the features really. Unfortunately I need a single windows app to run on a single machine and only work for that one and none else. I don't have the extra cash right now, nor do I need right now, a separate firewall PC. But I will keep it in mind and go ahead and download for the future. In the next couple of years when I connect my two networks to one in the neighborhood (The school and the house), I need a proxy server to run users and the such, and I think I saw that this will work for that.

But for right now it's a little too much for what I need. Thanks oracle. Does anyone know of a simple Windows app that does just that? Runs a web based config that I can call from a browser and shutdown port 80 for just that pc it's running on and none else?

Thanks again oracle, cool software I'm going to download now and boot up on VBOX to test :)