FireHOL
FireHOL is a simple yet powerful way to configure stateful
iptables firewalls.
It can be used for almost any purpose, including control of
any number
of internal/external/virtual interfaces, control of any combination of
routed traffic, setting up DMZ routers and servers, and all kinds of
NAT.
It provides strong protection (flooding, spoofing, etc.),
transparent
caches, source MAC verification, blacklists, whitelists, and more.
Its goal is to be completely abstracted and powerful but also
easy to
use, audit, and understand.
FireHOL runs a service/daemon, checking its own configuration
file at startup and writing out an iptables configuration before
automatically starting the iptables firewall.
Features include:
- Handles firewalls protecting one host on all its interfaces
and any combination of stateful firewalls routing traffic from one
interface to another
- Supports many single socket protocols, such as HTTP, NNTP,
SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, RADIUS, SSH, LDAP, MySQL, Telnet, NTP, DNS, etc
- Supports many complex protocols, such as FTP, NFS, SAMBA,
PPTP, etc
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