PMFirewall 1.1.4 review

PMFirewall is an Ipchains Firewall and Masquerading Configuration Utility for Linux

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 58K Developer: Rick Johnson

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PMFirewall is an Ipchains Firewall and Masquerading Configuration Utility for Linux. It was designed to allow a beginner to build a custom firewall with little or no ipchains experience.

This firewall should work for most Workstations, Servers and Dual NIC routers using either a dialup, DSL, Cable or LAN setup. It is restrictive to outside attacks but is still being transparent to those inside.

At this point it works on virtually every distribution of linux. If you find one with problems, please let me know.

What's New in This Release:
Autodetection of the IP Address and Netmask of each interface.
Blocking of NetBIOS, NetBUS, Back Orifice and Samba attacks.
Protection against IP Spoofing Attacks.
Logging of DENY packets.
Manipulation of TOS bits of the packet for optomizing transfers. You must have CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS enabled in your kernel for this to be effective.
Masquerading support is decided during install.
Your own custom rules can be added to the pmfirewall.rules.local file.