= Welcome to Vuurmuur Firewall =
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=== Introduction ===

Welcome to the homepage of the [http://vuurmuur.sourceforge.net Vuurmuur] project. [http://vuurmuur.sourceforge.net Vuurmuur] is a powerful firewall manager built on top of [http://www.netfilter.org iptables] on Linux. It has a simple and easy to learn configuration that allows both simple and complex configurations. The configuration can be fully configured through an Ncurses GUI, which allows secure remote administration through SSH or on the console. Vuurmuur has powerful monitoring features, which allow the administrator to look at the logs, connections and bandwidth usage in realtime. Vuurmuur is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL]. Take a look at the list of [wiki:Features], see the ScreenShots and watch the [http://wiki.vuurmuur.org/demos/demos.html flash demos] for an impression.

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=== Checkout the [wiki:Features] and [wiki:ScreenShots] ===
The [wiki:ScreenShots screens] and [wiki:Features features] should help you determine if Vuurmuur is something for your network.[[BR]]
=== Download the current stable version (0.5.72) ===

Get this version, that was released at 2007-01-05, at [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114382] or see [wiki:Download].[[BR]]

=== Download the latest test version of Vuurmuur (0.5.73 alpha 7) ===

The alpha versions are intended for testing new features and bugfixes. The latest alpha release of Vuurmuur can be found at [ftp://ftp.vuurmuur.org/releases/0.5.73.alpha7/]. Vuurmuur 0.5.73 alpha 7, that was released on 2007-09-08, is generally in a very usable state and 0.5.73 final will be out soon. So please give this test release a try! It brings you support for NFQUEUE and enables you to [wiki:VuurmuurConfConnview kill connections] from Vuurmuur_conf!

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