DAXFi - Dynamic XML Firewall / News: Recent posts

In this release, every available patch was applied.
Coders willing to takeover DAXFi are still required, since this project was not developed in the last three or four years, now.

DAXFi is a Python package that helps configure several different kinds of firewalls in a consistent way. The rules can be described with XML files, XML strings, or generated directly by the code.

I've not worked on DAXFi since a long time; if someone wants to take over the development, I'll be very glad to give all the support that I could.

Required skills/keywords: Python, XML, firewalls.

Home page: http://daxfi.sf.net/

DAXFi is not actively developed since about two years, now.
If you want to revive this project, see the home
page and contact me: http://daxfi.sf.net

DAXFi is a Python package that helps configure
several different kinds of firewalls in a consistent way.

A simple demo cgi is available:
http://daxfi.sourceforge.net/#demo

It shows how DAXFi can be used to generate
firewall rules.

Debian packages are now available from a
deb repository: http://erlug.linux.it/~da/deb/

RPM and SRPM are also available here:
http://erlug.linux.it/~da/rpm/

Released packages for Debian (Python 2.1 is required)
and RedHat/Mandrake (Python 2.2 is required).
Published a small patch for the tarball version.

User defined chains and chain policies were introduced. The pyXML package is no longer required, and the SAX API is used instead of DOM, with noticeable performance improvement. Now two rules can be merged using the XOR operator. The daxfidump script can write the output to a single file. Many bugs were fixed.

in this release the XML syntax was modified, many bugs
were fixed and now the C modules are compiled for i386,
Alpha, PPC and Sparc64 architectures.
Introduced other changes for performance improvement.

with this release, DAXFi fully supports ipfilter
and NAT with every firewall; now it can run on
different operating systems and architectures; the
XML DTD was cleaned and there is a document
about how to write XML rules, with many examples.

DAXFi is a Python script that helps configure
several different kinds of firewalls in a
consistent way.

In this release initial (alpha) support for
the ipfilter firewall was added.

DAXFi is a Python script that helps configure
several different kinds of firewalls in a
consistent way.

What's new in this release: it was added
a -p switch to daxfiscript so that the resulting
rules are just printed; the lock code for the
daxfi script was completely rewritten.
The Python module and the script have been tested
with Python 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2b1.

DAXFi is a Python script that helps configure
several different kinds of firewalls in a
consistent way.
In this release: added a script to convert a XML file to firewall commands; minor bugfixes and
changes in the daxfi packages.

DAXFi is a Python script that helps configure
several different kinds of firewalls in a
consistent way.
In this release: enhanced design of plug-ins
queue and minor bugfixes added.

In the 0.6 release there are some new feature in the daxfi script (new command line options, new default runlevel, etc.) and heavy changes in the daxfi package.
Almost every useful function is now accessible through instances of the Firewall class.

DAXFi is a Python script that helps configure several different firewalls in a consistent way.
With version 0.5 ipfwadm, ipchains
and iptables are supported.

DAXFi is a Python script that helps configure ipchains and iptables based firewalls. It can run as daemon to adapt its behavior to external conditions. Rules can be described with XML files; the program can be extended with plugins written
in Python.