Open Source Unix Shell Firewall Software

Smoothwall is a best-of-breed Internet firewall/router, designed to run on commodity hardware and to provide an easy-to-use administration interface to those using it. Built using open source and Free software, it's distributed under the GNU Public License.

The IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution. It is geared towards home and SOHO users. The IPCop web-interface is very user-friendly and makes usage easy.

BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.

Those who have read past the "Malware" warning can be assured there is absolutely no malware in this OS or in the download. This warning comes from the "netcat" binary included in the download as a DOS time client. Unfortunately netcat has code that is flagged as malware. FREESCO, a NAT/firewall router/server based on Linux and runs on a single 1.44MB floppy. Freesco is very powerful and versatile and can connect multiple home or small office networks to most types of Internet connections including dialup.

BrazilFW is a mini Linux distribution designed to be used as a Firewall and Router that runs easily on older computers. An old PC running BrazilFW is much more powerful and efficient than commercial software for routing in offices and residences running on a "powerful" computer. BrazilFW is based on Coyote Linux, which was designed by Joshua Jackson who discontinued Coyote Linux in version 2.24 in August 2005. In that same month comes on the scene BrazilFW Firewall and Router (BFW) with version 2.24, which is led by "Claudio" and "Marcelo - Brazil", running only on floppy disks, and being 2.30.1 the last version with this support . The following versions, as well having automatic detection of network cards, only run on large capacity media, such as hard disk (HD). Versions in Development: * 2.33.x: Uses kernel 2.4.x and is developed by Marcinho Samurai. * 3.x: Uses kernel 4.x and is developed by WoshMan

An iptables based firewall for systems running the Linux 2.4 or later kernel. Very flexible configuration allows the firewall to be used in a wide variety of firewall/gateway/router and VPN environments.

MailCleaner is no longer maintained. It will return soon in another form. [antispam] MailCleaner is an anti-spam / anti-virus filter SMTP gateway with user and admin web interfaces, quarantine, multi-domains, multi-templates, multi-languages. Using Bayes, RBLs, Spamassassin, MailScanner, ClamAV. Based on Debian. Enterprise ready. MailCleaner is an anti spam gateway installed between your mail infrastructure and the Internet. It includes a complete GNU/Linux OS and a graphical web interface for user and administrative access. It comes in the form of virtual machine templates.. - fully compatible with any SMTP mail server (Exchange, Zimbra, O365,...) You can install now MailCleaner within the following virtual environments: qcow2 (KVM, Proxmox, OpenStack, Xen) ova (OVA, VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, Fusion) vhd (Asure, VirtualPC) vhdx (Hyper-V) AMI (Amazon) Dedicate a server to MailCleaner, and you will have a working professional mail filter in le

Bootable CD Forensics/Virus Scanning/Recovery/PenTesting platform

OpenVoucher is an open source voucher management / hotspot system for authenticating guests in your wifi or cable network. It is designed to be easy to use for anyone who wants to issue vouchers. For further information and installation how to's, see the project's homepage. The source code is maintained on Github.

Bypass is an IP forwarding/tunneling tool which can be used where limited bypassing of a firewall is necessary, but relaxing the restrictions in the actual firewall is not an option. The aim is for bypass to be automatic and transparent.

The fwiptables is a one-file WIZARD, for IPTABLES with COMMAND-LINE, with CLI-MENU, with GUI-MENU, with GUI-ROLL, with GUI-SHELL. Since 2025, code more mature, and more stable, more clean, and with better code design, and with purpose educational.

Please see http://firehol.org/ for up-to-date releases and information. FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.

The WRT54GL Tarifa enhanced firmware. Linksys WRT54G/WRT54GS models V1 to V4 and the WRT54GL V1.x This Third Party Firmware is functionaly the same as the original, the improvements are to make this router more scaleable, by increasing the capacity.

NOTICE: The format of this project has been changed from ISO to using ansible and has been moved to GitHub. Github link: https://github.com/Bifrozt/bifrozt-ansible

A Firewallscript for Linux which allows you to do easy loadbalancing, dualrouting, failover, traffic control, etc. The script allows you to set up things in a few settings files and just run (after some kernel patching ;) ).

Live Security/Forensics Linux Distribution, built from scratch and packed full of tools useful for vulnerability analysis, penetration tests, and forensic analysis.

bastion-firewall is a Netfilter based firewall for Linux. It can generate graphical stats of all the rules traffic in the firewall with Rrdtool and it's integrated with the Snort Inline IPS. It's written in the bash and C programming languages.

This project will serve as a central hosting/bug tracking center for modifications to the SmoothWall.org firewall distribution. Support and information for the "mods" posted here can be found on the SmoothWall.org forums, the SmoothWall.org IRC server, or

The SunGazer PacketFilter is a small and simple tool under GPL to set up firewall rules. It uses iptables and it is easy to use and to configure.

AMaViS is a script that interfaces a mail transport agent (MTA) with virus scanners.

BadTuxWall will help you to implement your own firewall on a Linux operating system using an efficient graphical user interface. It also allows you to generate iptables scripts, export them and share them with friends.

EasyBSD is a modular automation script designed to assist in the extensive post installation process that is required in FreeBSD. The following are modules that are included with EasyBSD, Checks, Update, Security, Networking, Firewall, and more...

Debian packages for PeerGuardian Linux (including the GUI) and its precessor moblock/blockcontrol/mobloquer. PeerGuardian is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origins lie in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian/

arlinux is a mini-linux (floppy) distro for Recovery o Router/Firewall purpose. Realname is Advanced (Router/Recovery) Linux

This shell program automatically configures FreeBSD 9.1 and above as a firewall with only 2 answers from the user. The main goals of this program are minimal user input, ease of use and sensible security defaults. It's written for the sh shell included in FreeBSD by default.