IPFire is a source-based linux firewall distribution that brings additional features with it. The easy-to-set-up system defeats its competitiors like IPCop, Smoothwall and Endian-Firewall potty. A stateful-inspection-firewall with a luxuriant content-filtering-engine plus traffic-control (QoS) rounded with latest vpn-technology and a lot of logging is foolproof to administer with just a very few clicks.

So you can get anything out of ipfire you can imagine. Without any addons installed it is an ultra-fast firewall but can also be a full-featured home server. It's up to you what you want. Check it out...

After the first release of august 2005 the project relaunched an extremely flexible, stable and fast firewall, which was finally finished.

IPFire is new-developed firewall build with the latest releases of linux 2.6 and tools. You are able to install a lot of addons and you will see a firewall can become a home server.

One of the highlight of this security accessorie are the extensions to make a real home server out of it. You are able to install additional addons to the system with only a few mouse clicks. There are for example:

• A fast fileserver for networks with Microsoft Windows
• A local mailserver with virus scanning and spam detection
• A multimedia-jukebox
• A mp3- and ogg-streaming server
• An Intrusion Prevention System plus Guardian
• Voice over ip-solution with asterisk pbx

Major changes since the first version 2.1 in November 2007:

• DNS-Securityupdate and many more packet updates;
• Enhancement of the packet manager;
• Improvement of the Quality-of-Service rules - Presets for QoS;
• Adjustable Firewall Logging;
• Kernel-Modules for better hardware suport;
• Change the system statistic to "collectd";
• Better disk handling (S.M.A.R.T. and Standby);
• Status- and Serviceview in the Webinterface;
• Proxy and Redirector now work more dynamic.

In addition the 2.3 will change the following things

• Kernel update to Linux-2.6.25.19;
• Update of many more packets (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, Squid, Snort, collectd, ntfs-3g, Openswan, Updatexlrator, iptables, l7protocols);
• With severall Atheros Chips IPFire is able to work as Wireless Access Point;
• Better support of UMTS-3G-Modems;
• Use of tmpfs to reduce disk reads and writes;
• Better hardware monitoring by the use of lmsensors;
• Vnstat Traffic-Accounting replaces ipac-ng.

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