Welcome to Vuurmuur Firewall

This is the community page of the ​Vuurmuur project. ​Vuurmuur is a powerful middle-end/front-end for ​netfilter/iptables for Linux aimed at system-administrators who need a decent firewall, but don't have netfilter specific knowledge. It is open source and distributed under the terms of the ​GNU GPL. Take a look at the list of Features. See the ScreenShots and ​flash demos for an impression.

Interested? This is how you get involved:

Use it

• Download the latest version and run it
• Read how to get started and about Vuurmuur Manual on this wiki
• Report problems if you encounter any
• Check the Faq, ​mailarchives and ​forums for common issues
• Join the ​vuurmuur-users mailinglist to ask questions, participate in discussions

Improve it

• ​Get the latest alpha version, run it and report how it works
• Help improve the documentation on this wiki
• Create a translation for vuurmuur_conf in your native language
• Join the ​vuurmuur-devel mailinglist to participate in discussions
• Package Vuurmuur for your favorite distro
• Help others solve their problems at the ​forums, irc and ​mailinglist
• Check the developers page on the wiki

Spread the word

• Rate the project on ​freshmeat.net
• Try to convince your favorite distro to include Vuurmuur
• Tell your friends, collegues, relatives, etc
• Describe your installation(s), and bring us your Testimonials, to show the power of Vuurmuur.