Dwall 0.5.3 review

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Dwall is an all-purpose firewall tool to generate an iptables firewall out of a simple configuration

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size: 0K
Developer: Dag Wieers
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Dwall is an all-purpose firewall tool to generate an iptables firewall out of a simple configuration. It has about 80 predefined services and comes with a simple 3 zone firewall example.


In essence the sysadmin only needs to define the different zones and define what traffic is allowed from one zone to another (if any).

Here are some key features of "Dwall":
Rule-sets are split up into chains (ie. traffic between different zones)
Allows for human-readable firewall rules and allows good overview
Make name aliases for hosts or groups of hosts (uses /etc/hosts)
Can do mac address based filtering (uses /etc/ethers)
Includes more than 80 predefined services
Automatic logging of dropped connections
Automatic backups of older rulesets
Easy to go back in time and look at changes
Designed so it can be used for setups where different sysadmins make changes
Generated firewall code is documented, easy debugging
Can be used for host security and complex network security

What's New in This Release:
dwall-functions: Fixed problem with expand_alias for adst
shared-functions: Fixed error() to shift 2 arguments

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