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The goal of the WallFire project is to build a very general and modular
firewalling application based on Netfilter or any kind of low-level
framework.
It will enable to manage every aspect of a firewall administration, from
configuration to monitoring, intrusion detection, etc...
WallFire will provide command line and interactive tools as well as X Window
or Web front-ends.
WallFire is "libre" (free as a speech, in English) software.
It is mainly written in C++ and is intended to run on every *nix system.
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- Mar 2 2005: release of wfnetobjs-0.2.4 and wfconvert-0.4.1
- Feb 18 2005: release of wfnetobjs-0.2.3 and wfconvert-0.4.0
- Sep 6 2004: Hervé Eychenne was invited to the 3rd Netfilter Workshop, which took place in Erlangen (Germany), just before Linux Kongress.
Here is the summary of the Workshop.
- May 24 2004: release of wfnetobjs-0.2.2 and wflogs-0.9.8
- May 8 2004: release of wfnetobjs-0.2.1 and wfconvert-0-3.1
- Apr 30 2004: release of wfconvert-0.3.0, which is a major improvement over the previous version
- Apr 28 2004: release of wfnetobjs-0.2.0
- Jan 8 2004: release of wflogs-0.9.7
- Oct 30 2003: release of wfnetobjs-0.1.8 and wflogs-0.9.6
- Aug 18 2003: Hervé Eychenne was invited to the Netfilter workshop 2003, which took place in Budapest. I made a talk about the WallFire project, and about my wishlist for Netfilter, especially from the WallFire point of view. Here are the slides in MagicPoint format, or in HTML.
Here is the summary page of the Workshop.
- Apr 7 2003: release of wflogs-0.9.5
- Feb 17 2003: wflogs, libwfnetobjs0 and libwfnetobjs0-dev packages are now available in Debian sid (unstable). Debian woody (stable) i386 binary packages are also available (via an apt repository) on http://people.debian.org/~kelbert/ (see download section). Many thanks to Jean-Michel Kelbert, the wallfire Debian packager.
- Jan 30 2003: release of wfnetobjs-0.1.7 and wflogs-0.9.4
- Oct 30 2002: release of wfnetobjs-0.1.6, wfconvert-0.2.0, and wflogs-0.9.3
- Sep 26 2002: the netobjs library was taken out of wfconvert, and became a separate source tree, used by wfconvert and wflogs. Release of wfnetobjs-0.1.5, wfconvert-0.1.5, and wflogs-0.9.2
- Aug 21 2002: release of wfconvert-0.1.4 and wflogs-0.9.1
- Aug 17 2002: release of wflogs-0.9.0, with a Debian package by Guillaume Morin.
- Jul 29 2002: release of wfconvert-0.1.3 and wflogs-0.0.5
- Jul 12 2002: I'm doing a talk about WallFire, as part of the security topic at the Libre Software Meeting.
Here are the slides in MagicPoint format, or in HTML.
- Jun 20 2002: release of wflogs-0.0.4
- May 30 2002: release of wfconvert-0.1.2 and wflogs-0.0.3
- May 3 2002: public release of wfconvert-0.1.1 and wflogs-0.0.2
- Apr 5 2002: I was hired by KDX Ingenierie, spending half of my job time on WallFire development. See credits section.
- Mar 7 2002: first public release of a WallFire tool: wfconvert-0.1.0. Who said "vaporware"?! ;-)
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WallFire is intended to work on real systems such as Unix, especially Linux
and *BSD.
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WallFire is released under the GNU GPL (see
license section).
Please note that you need wfnetobjs to
compile wflogs.
Both source trees should be untarred from the same directory.
It is strongly recommended to use wflogs with
libadns
(an asynchronous DNS resolution library), which speeds up things greatly
on large log files.
Debian packages:
Upstream files:
- Mar 2, 2005: wfnetobjs version 0.2.4: ChangeLog
- Gzipped source code: wfnetobjs-0.2.4.tar.gz [535 Kb]
[HTTP] md5sum: 6d4886c396a5dd87257c93bf3027e6f6
- Bzipped source code: wfnetobjs-0.2.4.tar.bz2 [397 Kb]
[HTTP] md5sum: 089ce965053f046ade9cbccc8c018b5d
- May 24, 2004: wflogs version 0.9.8: ChangeLog
- Gzipped source code: wflogs-0.9.8.tar.gz [731 Kb]
[HTTP] md5sum: cee2ac33ca3c284f9253b492f793624c
- Bzipped source code: wflogs-0.9.8.tar.bz2 [493 Kb]
[HTTP] md5sum: 5e9c345113d986beeab243bed4ec94b5
- Mar 2, 2005: wfconvert version 0.4.1: ChangeLog
- Gzipped source code: wfconvert-0.4.1.tar.gz [609 Kb]
[HTTP] md5sum: 8f56efeb864d542ab7cb80a957456204
- Bzipped source code: wfconvert-0.4.1.tar.bz2 [445 Kb]
[HTTP] md5sum: 24670c5939e7c91d0a5bb8ecd76084d1
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- User oriented:
- Developer oriented:
To post to these lists, send your email to:
<listname@lists.wallfire.org>.
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For the moment, only wflogs and wfconvert are under CVS,
wfnetobjs will follow soon.
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This program is "libre" software, which means free as a free speech,
not free beer! (which doesn't imply I don't enjoy a free beer
occasionally ;-)
It is released under the terms of the GNU
General Public License
(GPL).
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I started developing WallFire in year 2001 as a personal project.
I'd like to thank KDX Ingenierie for having sponsored me betweek 2002
and 2004.
I did some stuff for Netfilter in its early stages, in the spring of 1999.
I would like to thank Netfilter initial author Paul "Rusty" Russell
for his competence, his kindness and uncomparable sense of humor.
And finally I would like to thank the frenetic Sophie without whom
my slides would not be what they are...
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- Netfilter/iptables: the
powerful firewalling framework for Linux 2.4 and 2.6.
- IPFilter: the excellent
packet filter issued from *BSD systems (well... even if there has been
some licensing problems recently).
- Ipchains: the
firewalling tool of Linux 2.2.
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