WFN vs net_wall

WFN

Windows Firewall Notifier extends the default Windows embedded firewall by allowing to handle and notify about outgoing connections, offers real time connections monitoring, connections map, bandwidth usage monitoring and more... (by wokhan)

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net_wall

A lightweight windows firewall API in C++ (by cosmo-developer)

Firewall CPP windows-firewall firewall-configuration firewall-rules

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WFN		net_wall
	Project
2	Mentions	1
585	Stars	4
0.7%	Growth	-
4.8	Activity	10.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
C#	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

WFN

Posts with mentions or reviews of WFN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-19.

How to block multiple programs from accessing the internet?
2 projects | /r/Windows10 | 19 May 2022
Any way to find out what app/thing connects to something?
1 project | /r/privacy | 24 Mar 2021

net_wall

Posts with mentions or reviews of net_wall. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Layering Windows Firewall API in C++
1 project | /r/cpp | 25 Oct 2022

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing WFN and net_wall you can also consider the following projects:

WindowsFirewallRuleset - PowerShell scripts to automatically create rules for Windows firewall

simplewall - Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.

nx-firewall - Firewall KCM

sharppcap - Official repository - Fully managed, cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) .NET library for capturing packets

DirectFire_Converter - DirectFire Firewall Converter - Network Security, Next-Generation Firewall Configuration Conversion, Firewall Syntax Translation and Firewall Migration Tool - supports Cisco ASA, Fortinet FortiGate (FortiOS), Juniper SRX (JunOS), SSG / Netscreen (ScreenOS) and WatchGuard (support for further devices in development). Similar to FortiConverter, SmartMove, Expedition etc.

radixdlt-network-gateway

fort - Fort Firewall for Windows

FirewallEasy - Application allows to block Internet access to other applications / Приложение позволяет заблокировать доступ в интернет другим приложения