Hi people, please forgive me for sending you this spam. I've been talking about my project a few times before on this list so I thought you would like to know it's finally released. --- Vuurmuur is a middle-end/front-end for netfilter/iptables aimed at system-administrators who need a decent firewall, but don't have netfilter specific knowledge. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. This is the first public release. What makes Vuurmuur different from the numerous other iptables frontends, is it's scalability, and most of all, the real-time feedback. Logs can be viewed in real-time, using colours for easy interpretation. Also, the current connections can be viewed in real-time. Filtering possibilities make it easy to monitor specific hosts or services. The scalability makes it very easy to handle more than two or three interfaces and networks. Because the administrator must define hosts, groups, networks, zones, services and interfaces, which must also be given a name, confusion such as with ipaddresses and portnumbers is prevented. These names are also reflected in the log and the connections monitor. A service is a container of portranges, so for complex services like Samba and Nfs, creating rules is especially easy. Also, portforwarding is very simple. Vuurmuur is currently of beta quality. It runs very well, but there certainly will be bugs and ommisions. Users are encouraged to try the software, and report their findings to the vuurmuur-users mailinglist. Developers willing to contribute are very welcome. The todo-list is always expanding! See http://vuurmuur.sourceforge.net/ for details (and screenshots).
