Open Source Perl 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.

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.

Endian Firewall Community (EFW) is a "turn-key" linux security distribution that makes your system a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionalities. The software has been designed for the best usability: very easy to install, use and manage and still greatly flexible. The feature suite includes stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spam-filtering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a "hassle free" VPN solution (based on both OpenVPN and IPsec).

360-FAAR (Firewall Analysis Audit and Repair) is an offline, command line, firewall policy manipulation tool to filter, compare to logs, merge, translate and output firewall commands for new policies, in Checkpoint dbedit, Cisco ASA or ScreenOS commands, and its one file! Read Policy and Logs for: Checkpoint FW1 (in odumper.csv / logexport format), Netscreen ScreenOS (in get config / syslog format), Cisco ASA (show run / syslog format), 360-FAAR compares firewall policies and uses CIDR and text filters to split rulebases / policies into target sections and identify connectivity for further analysis. 360-FAAR supports, policy to log association, object translation, rulebase reordering and simplification, rule moves and duplicate matching automatically. Allowing you to move rules to where you need them. Build new rulebases from scratch with a single 'any' rule and log files, with the 'res' and 'name' options. Switch into DROPS mode to analyse drop log entries.

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

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.

Netdeep Secure is a Linux distribution with focus on network security. Is a Next Generation Open Source Firewall, which provides virtually all perimeter security features that your company may need. It offers Web content filters, ensuring better performance of the network, allowing users to use the service efficiently and securely, providing a deep control of the use of the Web access service, blocking access to unwanted websites, Virus, Spam, Applications and intrusion attempts. Its configuration is made entirely by the web interface.

MailCleaner Open Source Edition is now discontinued but will continue under the spamtagger project https://github.com/SpamTagger [antispam] MailCleaner is an anti-spam / anti-virus filter SMTP gateway with user and admin web interfaces, quarantine, multi-domains, multi-templates, multi-languages. Using Bayes, RBLs, Spamassassin, MailScanner, ClamAV. Based on Debian. Enterprise ready. MailCleaner is an anti spam gateway installed between your mail infrastructure and the Internet. It includes a complete GNU/Linux OS and a graphical web interface for user and administrative access. It comes in the form of virtual machine templates.. - fully compatible with any SMTP mail server (Exchange, Zimbra, O365,...)

Bypass is an IP forwarding/tunneling tool which can be used where limited bypassing of a firewall is necessary, but relaxing the restrictions in the actual firewall is not an option. The aim is for bypass to be automatic and transparent.

An iptables based firewall for systems running the Linux 2.4 or later kernel. Very flexible configuration allows the firewall to be used in a wide variety of firewall/gateway/router and VPN environments.

An iptables front-end to allow rules to be expressed in a more flexible, free-form style using language closer to plain-English than iptables commands. Rules are then compiled to normal iptables commands.

This project will serve as a central hosting/bug tracking center for modifications to the SmoothWall.org firewall distribution. Support and information for the "mods" posted here can be found on the SmoothWall.org forums, the SmoothWall.org IRC server, or

EasyBSD is a modular automation script designed to assist in the extensive post installation process that is required in FreeBSD. The following are modules that are included with EasyBSD, Checks, Update, Security, Networking, Firewall, and more...

The package includes tools that make a fully functional user accounting system for a small ISP. Functionality includes: traffic shaping, management of users' accounts, firewall, network monitoring, link quality measurement, alert system, etc.

Snort2Pf is a small Perl daemon which greps Snort's alertfile and blocks the "naughty" hosts for a given amount of time using pfctl.

[not maintained anymore] Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, VPNs (vtund), ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraff

Collection of open source security tools that enhance the ability of people and companies to secure their environment. These tools will build upon the foundation laid by the security community.

AMaViS is a script that interfaces a mail transport agent (MTA) with virus scanners.

New improved iptables tool, based on my earlier project Easy Linux Firewall, but rewritten from scratch using Perl. It's a simple rewrite for now, but i am working on adding some new features like. Some of the improvements will be web administration panel, automatic filtering daemon, TCP listener providing easy to use API so you can integrate it on many servers and centralize them in to one Web interface to control all of them. I am open to new ideas and also any kind of contributors, because I'm working on this alone and it isn't easy, so you are welcome to help.

This script reads your iptables-based firewall configuration and displays your rules in the order in which packes will actually traverse them. Output is intuitive while closely resembling that of iptables-save, and indicates table ownership of rules, etc

RazWall is a community based firewall built on Slackware Linux. We will publish the ISO releases here as they develop.

SSS is a simple socks server written in perl that implements the SOCKS v5 protocol.

inundator is a tool used to anonymously inundate intrusion detection logs with false positives to obfuscate a real attack, leaving the IDS analyst feeling completely inundated.

The ADSL optimizer is an accurate packet scheduling solution for ADSL connections, based on Linux and HTB. The solution guarantees low latency while maintaining full utilization of both upstream and downstream, without wasting link capacity.