firewall

Linux-2.2 ipchains firewall/NAPT/NAT administration



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What is firewall?

Firewall is a set of scripts (firewall, fwup and fwdown) that implement an ipchains firewall and various forms of network address and port translation. All you have to do is read the policy file and edit it to reflect your topology and filtering policy.

The policy file is composed of sections in which you need to specify: this host's trusted and untrusted network interfaces; this host's role and function within the network topology; the incoming and outgoing services to allow and the internal and external hosts that may take part in them. It has been designed to make this as painless and flexible as possible.

Each section contains detailed explanations and advice on things such as when to start the firewall and the security implications of various well known internet services and advice on how to allow them safely. It is intended to introduce administrators to some subtleties of packet filtering quickly so that they can make better informed security decisions and achieve and maintain effective network security (at least the packet filtering part) in a very short time. Of course, it will not prevent you from achieving bad network security, but you will have been warned.

Firewall is freely available under the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

Features

For more information see the Documentation section.

Supported Platforms

Currently, firewall is only for 2.2 linux kernels or 2.4 kernels that use the ipchains backwards compatibility module. Firewall should work on any Linux distribution including LRP (supports building an LRP package containing the firewall scripts and your policy file).

Documentation

There is a README file and firewall.policy:

README - Readme, Install, Remote Install, LRP Package Install, Extras, Requirements, Copying, History, References, Bugs, TODO
firewall.policy - Firewall/NAPT/NAT policy file containing explanations and advice

Download

Latest: firewall-20041231.tar.gz (194,524 bytes) (SHA256 c7dd1bcb0e943d4c9544d0f84a0e94d83e50045b949e4a16a9feb7dcc53e3043)
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firewall-20010211.tar.gz (147,887 bytes) (SHA256 b8b625bd7e056590940378efc379d545ee87e21f58b96990936db38cb946c9bc)
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firewall-20000601.tar.gz (126,303 bytes) (SHA256 843911eaa205cbf78e2e930e5924e802fa178a5aac23da1c58e7d4a2c4c576ff)
firewall-20000430.tar.gz (88,754 bytes) (SHA256 b0e42ad15b525b3459a254089a50a21bea06286032afab4e784503fff982027b)
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firewall-20000321.tar.gz (34,481 bytes) (SHA256 4409edb5f7cb26d9d51415bfb40429deae2c096efdf9fd50665d8884c66fd43b)
firewall-20000309.tar.gz (31,146 bytes) (SHA256 827e4282bc58305afe8d38f6ff1b324481a5792a69a2f4eca79d12af230bc34b)
firewall-19991231.tar.gz (20,066 bytes) (SHA256 42595e027f6ebbab3d4de21d393047b5e74e2558f697be8d68f0e86a586f7a3a)

What is firewall? | Features | Supported Platforms | Documentation | Download

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