Features

Vuurmuur is a powerful frontend to IPTables on Linux. It works with Linux 2.4 and 2.6.

Administration

• no iptables knowledge required
• humanly readable rules syntax
• Ncurses GUI, no X required.
• audit logging: all changes are logged
• portforwarding is made very simple
• easy to setup in with NAT
• secure default policy
• entirely manageble through ssh and from the console (including from windows using PuTTY!)
• scriptable for integration with other tools
• can produce a bash firewall script
• anti-spoofing features
• killing of unwanted connections
• supports working with Snort_inline using QUEUE or NFQUEUE

Monitoring

• realtime logviewing
• realtime connection viewing
• filtering in logviewing and connection viewing
• basic traffic volume accounting
• searching through old logfiles