Welcome to Vuurmuur Firewall

Introduction

Welcome to the homepage of the Vuurmuur project. Vuurmuur is a powerful firewall manager built on top of ​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 supports traffic shaping, 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 ​GNU GPL. Take a look at the list of Features, see the ScreenShots and watch the ​flash demos for an impression.

Interested? This is how you get involved.

Checkout the Features and ScreenShots

The screens and features should help you determine if Vuurmuur is the right tool for protecting your network.

Download the stable release: 0.7

Checkout the ​Ftp server or see Download for download instructions. This release fixes many bugs. Read the announcement here ​http://www.inliniac.net/blog/2009/04/04/vuurmuur-07-is-out.html.

New development release: 0.8beta2

Please try the new development release from the 0.8 series. Many issues were fixed. A quick setup wizard was added. Feedback will be appreciated! Get the release from the ​Ftp server.

Packages for Debian 'testing' Squeeze and Ubuntu Jaunty

Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Jaunty are now supported on the apt-server.

Join us on IRC

On freenode.net we are in the #vuurmuur channel. Join us there for support, suggestions, idling, etc.