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Giptables Firewall - Scripts to generate iptables rules for Linux 2.4.x and newer kernels

GIPTables Firewall is a set of shell scripts that hgenerates iptables rules for Linux 2.4.x and newer kernels. It is designed to run on hosts with one or two network cards. Users needn't install additional components to make the package work with a GNU/Linux system; to set-up a very secure firewall for a GNU/Linux machines is iptables and GIPTables Firewall.

It can be used easily with a host that has only one network card; this host can be a server or a workstation. It assumes that if your host has two network cards, then the host should be a Gateway Server that connects your internal network to the Internet.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.giptables.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.giptables.org/downloads/giptables-1.1.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.giptables.org/downloads.html
Version 1.1 (beta) released on 2002-06-09
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Support contacts

Announce List<giptables-announce@lists.openna.com> <giptables-announce-request@lists.openna.com> http://www.giptables.org/support.html#lists
Help List<giptables-users@lists.openna.com> <giptables-users-request@lists.openna.com> http://www.giptables.org/support.html#lists

Project contacts

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Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/giptables http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/giptables/
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesShell script

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-06-18
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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