Open Source Unix Shell 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.

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.

Securing your network should not require an enterprise budget. CacheGuard is a free open-source network security appliance for startups and growing businesses that need serious protection without the complexity. Install CacheGuard-OS on any x86 machine or VM and get a complete security gateway in under an hour. No plug-ins, no compatibility issues. Everything works out of the box. CacheGuard-OS is not an app, it IS the OS. A fully custom network appliance operating system built from scratch over 20 years, now fully open source. One ISO includes: firewall, VPN, web antivirus, URL filtering, SSL inspection, WAF, reverse proxy, load balancer and QoS. Free for any number of users. Optional paid support available. Source code: https://github.com/cacheguard/CacheGuard-OS Website: https://www.cacheguard.com/

Those who have read past the "Malware" warning can be assured there is absolutely no malware in this OS or in the download. This warning comes from the "netcat" binary included in the download as a DOS time client. Unfortunately netcat has code that is flagged as malware. FREESCO, a NAT/firewall router/server based on Linux and runs on a single 1.44MB floppy. Freesco is very powerful and versatile and can connect multiple home or small office networks to most types of Internet connections including dialup.

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.

BrazilFW is a mini Linux distribution designed to be used as a Firewall and Router that runs easily on older computers. An old PC running BrazilFW is much more powerful and efficient than commercial software for routing in offices and residences running on a "powerful" computer. BrazilFW is based on Coyote Linux, which was designed by Joshua Jackson who discontinued Coyote Linux in version 2.24 in August 2005. In that same month comes on the scene BrazilFW Firewall and Router (BFW) with version 2.24, which is led by "Claudio" and "Marcelo - Brazil", running only on floppy disks, and being 2.30.1 the last version with this support . The following versions, as well having automatic detection of network cards, only run on large capacity media, such as hard disk (HD). Versions in Development: * 2.33.x: Uses kernel 2.4.x and is developed by Marcinho Samurai. * 3.x: Uses kernel 4.x and is developed by WoshMan

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.

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.

The fwiptables is a one-file WIZARD, for IPTABLES with COMMAND-LINE, with CLI-MENU, with GUI-MENU, with GUI-ROLL, with GUI-SHELL. fwiptables develop with Purpose Educational Since 2020, developing code Since 2024, cleaning code Since 2025, fixing code Browse Wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/f-iptables/wiki/browse_pages/ Anonymouse Ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/f-iptables/tickets/

OpenVoucher is an open source voucher management / hotspot system for authenticating guests in your wifi or cable network. It is designed to be easy to use for anyone who wants to issue vouchers. For further information and installation how to's, see the project's homepage. The source code is maintained on Github.

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

Bootable CD Forensics/Virus Scanning/Recovery/PenTesting platform

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

bastion-firewall is a Netfilter based firewall for Linux. It can generate graphical stats of all the rules traffic in the firewall with Rrdtool and it's integrated with the Snort Inline IPS. It's written in the bash and C programming languages.

A light script to make a black-list system troug iptables. You can create the black-list and manage it troug this program. Please read README file to know better this script.

Ipblock allows you to select which countries you allow or block connections to and from.

FireGate is an IPtables script for use as a firewall and NAT/masquerade for home networks or SOHO applications.

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

deface-no-tnx is an anti-defacement system that monitors your Web files and notifies you about unallowed changes. It also replaces the defaced page with a standard "error" page,so that no offensive/joking content can be frauodolently added to your site

Bait and Switch combines IDS tech (Snort primarily) and Honeypots into a new, more valuable, reactive system. After receiving an alert, B&S protects your server by silently redirecting hostile traffic to a honeypot while leaving other traffic alone.

Milkshake is a Slackware-based Linux distribution that boots from a USB stick and turns an unused PC into a home firewall/router. This project is currently in prealpha and is not intended for use yet. Please do not rate it up or down yet.

"TKMsense" an easy to use secure OpenBSD based firewall distribution. TKMsense's main goal is to blend ease of use and security. While still being friendly to the beginner. Full source code https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkmsense/files/TKMsense_Source_Code/ TKMsense versions 1. ISO-this file is meant to be burned to a CD/DVD or to install into a hypervisor's vm x86_64 bit https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkmsense/files/TKMsense_V0.0.4/amd64/TKMsense_0.0.4_amd64.iso/download x86_32 bit https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkmsense/files/TKMsense_V0.0.4/i386/TKMsense_0.0.4_i386.iso/download Important note "TKMsense only helps with networking settings. not initial installation."

Live Security/Forensics Linux Distribution, built from scratch and packed full of tools useful for vulnerability analysis, penetration tests, and forensic analysis.

9Muri is an higly configurable firewall script developed on Red Hat Fedora Core 4 and 6. It's developed in Perl and Shell script.