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.

CacheGuard Gateway is a free and open-source Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and a Quality of Service (QoS) platform designed to optimize WAN traffic. To obtain a CacheGuard Gateway appliance, download CacheGuard-OS and install it on the bare-metal or virtual machine of your choice. It’s that simple and completely free. The UTM includes a firewall, web antivirus, VPN server, and a URL-filtering and SSL-inspection web proxy. The WAF operates in conjunction with a reverse proxy, web application load balancer, and SSL offloader, and is capable of blocking malicious requests as well as traffic from IP addresses with poor reputations. The QoS manager enables traffic shaping to prioritize critical network flows, load balance multiple WAN links, and cache web traffic.

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.

FireHOL is a language (and a program to run it) that builds secure, stateful firewalls from easy-to-understand, human-readable configurations. The configurations stay readable even for very complex setups. FireQOS is a program that sets up traffic shaping from an easy-to-understand and flexible configuration file. Both programs abstract away the differences between IPv4 and IPv6. so you can concentrate on the rules you want. You can apply rules for IPv4 or IPv6, or both, as you need.

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

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.

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.

MailCleaner Open Source Edition is now discontinued but will continue under the spamtagger project https://github.com/SpamTagger [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,...)

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.

The fwiptables is a one-file WIZARD, for IPTABLES with COMMAND-LINE, with CLI-MENU, with GUI-MENU, with GUI-ROLL, with GUI-SHELL. fwiptables develop with Purpose Educational Since 2020, developing code Since 2024, cleaning code Since 2025, fixing code Browse Wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/f-iptables/wiki/browse_pages/ Anonymouse Ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/f-iptables/tickets/

A light script to make a black-list system troug iptables. You can create the black-list and manage it troug this program. Please read README file to know better this script.

Bootable CD Forensics/Virus Scanning/Recovery/PenTesting platform

FBSD-DEV: INSTALL6 is a post installation script that automates several key points and procedures involved in updating and securing FreeBSD. Updating the source and ports, securing system, and the configuration of pf firewall.

Snort2Pf is a small Perl daemon which greps Snort's alertfile and blocks the "naughty" hosts for a given amount of time using pfctl.

"TKMsense" an easy to use secure OpenBSD based firewall distribution. TKMsense's main goal is to blend ease of use and security. While still being friendly to the beginner. Full source code https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkmsense/files/TKMsense_Source_Code/ TKMsense versions 1. ISO-this file is meant to be burned to a CD/DVD or to install into a hypervisor's vm x86_64 bit https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkmsense/files/TKMsense_V0.0.4/amd64/TKMsense_0.0.4_amd64.iso/download x86_32 bit https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkmsense/files/TKMsense_V0.0.4/i386/TKMsense_0.0.4_i386.iso/download Important note "TKMsense only helps with networking settings. not initial installation."

A Linux IPv4 iptables firewall and traffic shaper. It allows flexible rule creation, while also shipping with presets for common needs. Rules are written in simple XML, allowing various ways to group and nest the arguments. An interactive mode is available in order to build configuration files in a wizard based manner. Extensive documentation is also included.

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.

Milkshake is a Slackware-based Linux distribution that boots from a USB stick and turns an unused PC into a home firewall/router. This project is currently in prealpha and is not intended for use yet. Please do not rate it up or down yet.

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.

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.

"GETO" is NIPS system. NIPS is a system which prevent any abnormal network user from access your valuable server.

9Muri is an higly configurable firewall script developed on Red Hat Fedora Core 4 and 6. It's developed in Perl and Shell script.

The ADSL optimizer is an accurate packet scheduling solution for ADSL connections, based on Linux and HTB. The solution guarantees low latency while maintaining full utilization of both upstream and downstream, without wasting link capacity.

ADSL4Linux is a program to connect your Linux box via ADSL to the internet in as few steps as possible. This is all done in the easiest possible way. Also contains two Firewalls (ipchains and iptables).