ferm

ferm - Tool to set up and maintain firewalls

ferm is a tool to maintain and setup complicated firewall rules. It helps reduce the tedious task of carefully inserting rules and chains, so the firewall administrator can spend more time on developing good rules, and less time on the implementation of those rules. The preferred kernel interface, such as ipchains and iptables, executes these rules in one pass. They can also be split into different files and loaded at will.

Obtaining

Web page	http://ferm.sourceforge.net/
Source tarball	http://ferm.sourceforge.net/ferm-1.1.tar.gz

Version 1.1 (stable) released on 2003-05-07

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

Man page included and available in HTML format from http://ferm.sourceforge.net/ferm.html

Support contacts

Help List	<auke.kok@planet.nl>
Developer List	<auke.kok@planet.nl>
Bug List	<auke.kok@planet.nl>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Auke Kok <auke.kok@planet.nl>
Developers	Auke Kok <auke.kok@planet.nl>
Contributors	Daniel R. Bidwell <bidwell@andrews.edu> Yannick Le Briquer <yannick.lebriquer@anakeen.com> John Auer <jaa@aeronix.com> Klaus lichtenwalder <k.lichtenwalder@computer.org>

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	Perl
Use requirements	Perl 5, kernel firewall program (ipchains/iptables/ipfwadm)

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-05-02
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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