Open Source BSD Firewall Software

Smoothwall is a best-of-breed Internet firewall/router, designed to run on commodity hardware and to provide an easy-to-use administration interface to those using it. Built using open source and Free software, it's distributed under the GNU Public License.

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

VTun is the easiest way to create Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression, and encryption. It supports IP, Ethernet, PPP and other tunnel types. VTun is easily and highly configurable. VPN, Mobile IP, Shaping, etc

The UPnP PortMapper can be used to easily manage the port mappings/port forwarding of a UPnP enabled internet gateway/router in the local network.

Firewall Builder is a GUI firewall management application for iptables, PF, Cisco ASA/PIX/FWSM, Cisco router ACL and more. Firewall configuration data is stored in a central file that can scale to hundreds of firewalls managed from a single UI. A message from project maintainers: After working on Firewall Builder for many years it is with some sadness that Vadim and I are announcing that we have suspended all development activity for this project. Firewall Builder has been a great project to work on and we have truly appreciated all the support and positive feedback that the user community has provided. Without you we wouldn’t have been able to keep things going this long. You might be wondering why we are doing this... We had an exciting opportunity come up to start a company developing advanced security automation solutions. This was a chance of a lifetime that we just couldn’t pass up and unfortunately it means that we no longer have time available to work on improv

The IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution. It is geared towards home and SOHO users. The IPCop web-interface is very user-friendly and makes usage easy.

Coraza is an open-source, enterprise-grade, high-performance Web Application Firewall (WAF) ready to protect your beloved applications. It is written in Go, supports ModSecurity SecLang rulesets and is 100% compatible with the OWASP Core Rule Set. Coraza is a drop-in alternative to replace the soon-to-be abandoned Trustwave ModSecurity Engine and supports industry-standard SecLang rule sets. Coraza runs the OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS) to protect your web applications from a wide range of attacks, including the OWASP Top Ten, with a minimum of false alerts. CRS protects from many common attack categories including: SQL Injection (SQLi), Cross Site Scripting (XSS), PHP & Java Code Injection, HTTPoxy, Shellshock, Scripting/Scanner/Bot Detection & Metadata & Error Leakages. Coraza is a library at its core, with many integrations to deploy on-premise Web Application Firewall instances.

AgentGuard is a real-time protection layer designed to safeguard AI agents and applications from runaway execution, excessive costs, and unsafe behavior during interaction with large language model APIs. It works by intercepting API calls made by an AI system and continuously monitoring usage, including token consumption and associated costs, allowing developers to enforce strict budget limits. When predefined thresholds are reached, the system can automatically halt execution, trigger alerts, or gracefully terminate processes depending on the configured mode. This makes it particularly valuable in environments where agents operate autonomously and may enter unintended loops or inefficient workflows. The tool integrates directly into existing applications with minimal changes, often requiring only a few lines of code to activate protection. It also supports advanced configurations such as distributed tracking through Redis and webhook notifications for real-time monitoring.

Siproxd is a proxy/masquerading daemon for the SIP protocol. It allows SIP clients (softphones & hardphones) to work behind an IP masquerading firewall or router.

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is a curated, generic Web Application Firewall rule set that detects and blocks common attack categories across most web apps. It focuses on broad protection—SQL injection, cross-site scripting, local/remote file inclusion, command injection, and protocol violations—without requiring app-specific knowledge. Rules are organized into paranoia levels so operators can tune detection aggressiveness and balance false positives against coverage. An anomaly-scoring model accumulates rule hits per request, enabling nuanced blocking thresholds and easier incident triage. The project ships with extensive documentation, exclusion packages, and testing tools to help tailor deployment for frameworks, CDNs, and APIs. Deployed on engines such as ModSecurity or compatible WAFs, CRS is a widely used baseline for HTTP security in reverse proxies and gateways.

BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.

SSHGuard protects hosts from brute-force attacks against SSH and other services. It aggregates system logs and blocks repeat offenders using several firewall backends, including iptables, ipfw, and pf.

The goal of FireStarter is to provide easy to use, yet powerful, graphical tools for setting up, administrating and monitoring firewalls for Linux machines.

SS5 is a socks server for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD environment, that implements the SOCKS v4 and v5 protocol.

ModSecurity is a web application firewall that can work either embedded or as a reverse proxy. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis.

A java wrapper for popular "libpcap" and "WinPcap" libraries. Accurate full API translation. Packet buffers delivered with no copies. Send custom packets, gather statistics. Comprehensive and easily extensible DPI engine.

Fail2Ban monitors log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans failure-prone addresses. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address or executes user defined commands. Please see code and download from https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban . SF Fail2ban portal might not be up-to-date

Two tools able to edit your ipfilter.dat . These tools are able to edit your ipfilter.dat in order to check for big ranges and to check adjacent ranges . From the creators of ipfilterX , Nexus23 Labs . - Updates in Progress -

Enables tunneling of network connections through restrictive HTTP proxies. Features: Portmapping, SOCKS4, SOCKS5, web-based admin interface, possibility to use standalone server (perl) or hosted server (PHP), optional authorization from LDAP or MySQL

This is a daemon that emulates Microsoft's Internet Connection Service (ICS). It implements the UPnP Internet Gateway Device specification (IGD) and allows UPnP aware clients, such as MSN Messenger to work properly from behind a Linux NAT firewall.

SonicReader is used to view and save reports of the internals of a Sonicwall Configuration file. This is useful for those people that wish to know the settings within their saved Sonicwall Configs. I have no affiliation with Dell Sonicwall. Please do not contact Dell Sonicwall regarding the use of this program.

Please see http://firehol.org/ for up-to-date releases and information. FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.

The Nemesis Project is designed to be a command line based, portable human IP stack for UNIX-like and Windows systems. The suite is broken down by protocol, and should allow for useful scripting of injected packets from simple shell scripts.

A Free SOCKS proxy server for Linux, macos and FreeBSD

VTD-XML is the next generation XML parser/indexer/editor/slicer/assembler/xpath-engine that goes beyond DOM, SAX and PULL in performance, memory usage, and ease of use.