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IP firewall/acounting administration: ipfwadm 1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Apr 16 13:11:49 1995
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 19:13:30 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: jos@xos.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: IP firewall/acounting administration: ipfwadm 1.0
Organization: X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Summary: Announcing ipfwadm 1.0
Keywords: firewalls accounting ipfwadm ipfw
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.networking
This is the official announcement of version 1.0 of ipfwadm, a
utility to administer the IP accounting and IP firewall services
offered by the Linux kernel.
This version of ipfwadm requires version 1.2.1 or later of Linux.
This utility is meant to be a replacement for the existing ipfw(8)
utility, as found in the net-tools package. Ipfwadm was made to be
more complete and easier to use than ipfw.
Among the features offered by ipfwadm are:
- Changing default policies for both firewall categories.
- Automatically adding the necessary extra rules when the named
hosts have more than one IP address.
- Support for specifying the interface address for the rules.
- Listing and resetting packet/byte counters "atomically" for
setting up a reliable accounting scheme.
- Listing the existing rules in a number of formats.
- Support for optional functions (bidirectional rules and TCP
SYN/not-ACK matching).
- A complete manual page. (Yes! Really!)
The original sources for this package can be found at
ftp://ftp.xos.nl/pub/linux/ipfwadm/ipfwadm-1.0.tar.gz
More information about ipfwadm can be found at
http://www.xos.nl/linux/ipfwadm/
Copyright (C) 1995 by X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV.
This is free software. See the accompanying README and COPYING
files for details.
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