Sphirewall is an open source firewall and router software based on the Linux kernel. It provides bandwidth analytics and advance user management.
Among the features of Sphirewall, we can mention routing, Nat and Pat support, DHCP support, PPPoE support, stateful firewall core, flexible filtering rules, QOS and traffic shaping, GeoIP based filtering, Tun Openvpn server and a powerful pooling and alias system.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New Features:
· Filtering on port ranges
· Users can add tags/comments to rules
· Users can export events
· Dynamic dns
· Openvpn client
· Users can export sphirewall.conf file from wmi
· Users can specify reporting metric, mbytes/kbytes etc
· Added delete user event action
· Timeframe based acl rules
· Users can configure the retension period of the ana data
· Users can configure the event smtp server
· Http authentication handler
Improvements:
· SCLI displays string loglevels rather than integer
· Password hashing is optional
· Improved snort support
· Added deny list for event handlers
· Improved event system
· Split packages out
· Improved wmi
Bugs:
· Fixed an integer overflow issue in the ana system
· Fixed issue with connections being missed in listConnections() call
· This is not an absolute list, there are many changes not listed here. Contact the team for details.