Features
Vuurmuur is a powerful firewall manager on Linux. It works with iptables on Linux 2.4 and 2.6.
Administration
- no iptables knowledge required
- humanly readable rules syntax
- traffic shaping
- Ncurses GUI, no X required.
- portforwarding is made very simple
- easy to setup in with NAT
- secure default policy
- entirely manageble through ssh and from the console (including from windows using PuTTY)
- scriptable for integration with other tools
- can produce a bash firewall script
- anti-spoofing features
- killing of unwanted connections
- supports working with Snort_inline using QUEUE or NFQUEUE
Monitoring
- realtime logviewing
- realtime connection viewing
- filtering in logviewing and connection viewing
- basic traffic volume accounting
- searching through old logfiles
Accounting
- audit logging: all changes are logged
- logging of new connections and bad packets
- traffic volume accounting
Changelog
Current svn tree
- nothing yet
0.7 (2009-04-04)
- No changes since 0.7rc3.
0.7rc3 (2009-03-27)
- Installation script no longer automatically updates the build system, it now only does so when told to
- Fixed a buffer overflow bug in textdir.
- Fixed a small layout error in the nfs service.
0.7rc2 (2009-03-22)
- Updated version of libtool (2.2.4) and Automake (1.10.1)
- Change building of textdir: the plugin is now a so library.
0.7rc1 (2009-02-28)
- Fix cmdline overrides of the config getting lost on reloads/apply changes. Closes #67.
- Don't depend on environment variables to determine if we are root. Closes #66
- Added services for the IM protocols AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, tinc and NFS
- Fix portrange parsing for listenports and remoteports entered in the vuurmuur-conf. Closes #61.
- German translation update by Alexander Weber.
You can download Vuurmuur 0.7 here.
Vuurmuur is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Visit the official site for the latest info & updates here.
