Foomuuri is a multizone bidirectional nftables firewall.
Foomuuri depends on nftables (version 1.0.0 or higher), python3-systemd, python3-dbus and python3-gobject (called python3-gi in some distributions).
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Firewall zones.
- Bidirectional firewalling for incoming, outgoing and forwarding traffic.
- Suitable for all systems from personal laptop to corporate firewalls.
- Rich rule language for flexible and complex rules.
- Predefined list of services for simple rule writing.
- Rule language supports macros and templates.
- IPv4 and IPv6 support with automatic rule splitting per protocol.
- SNAT, DNAT and masquerading support.
- Logging and counting.
- Rate limiting.
- DNS hostname lookup support with dynamic IP address refreshing.
- Multi-ISP support with internal network connectivity monitor.
- Country database support aka geolocation.
- IPsec matching support.
- Ability to map certain traffic to separate zones.
- D-Bus API.
- FirewallD emulation for NetworkManager’s zone support.
- Raw nftables rules can be used.
- Fresh design, written to use modern nftables’s features.
Website: github.com/FoobarOy/foomuuri
Support:
Developer: Kim B. Heino
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Foomuuri is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| awall | Firewall configuration tool, providing various benefits over plain iptables |
| Foomuuri | Multizone bidirectional nftables firewall |
| bgpipe | BGP reverse proxy and firewall |
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