About:
ferm is a tool to maintain and setup complicated firewall rules. It allows one to reduce the tedious task of carefully inserting rules and chains, thus enabling the firewall administrator to spend more time on developing good rules, and less time on the proper implementation of those rules. These rules will be executed by the preferred kernel interface, such as ipchains and iptables, and in one pass. Firewall rules can also be split into different files and loaded at will.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
Minor string quoting fixes. The internal module list is reset correctly. import-ferm ignores the position of the negation marker.

Author:
sofar [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.43/10.00 (4 votes)

Homepage:
http://ferm.foo-projects.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://ferm.foo-projects.org/download/2.0/ferm-2.0.2.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://ferm.foo-projects.org/download/2.0/NEWS
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/ferm
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://svn.foo-projects.org/svn/ferm/releases/ferm-2.0.2/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		System :: Networking :: Firewalls

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	2.0.2	27-Jul-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	1.2beta2	10-Sep-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.0.2	Minor feature enhancements	27-Jul-2008 06:46
2.0.1	Minor bugfixes	25-Jul-2008 17:31
2.0	Major feature enhancements	24-Jul-2008 11:29
1.3.5	Minor bugfixes	21-Jul-2008 19:59
1.3.4	Minor bugfixes	28-May-2008 17:11
1.3.3	Minor feature enhancements	22-Jan-2008 18:18
1.3.2	Minor bugfixes	19-Dec-2007 14:25
1.3.1	Minor bugfixes	09-Dec-2007 14:24
1.3	Major feature enhancements	06-Dec-2007 22:17
1.2.5	Minor bugfixes	14-Oct-2007 20:24

 Comments

[»] Debian package
by sofar - May 2nd 2001 15:39:15

In case you're interested: there's a debian package available at ftp.debian.org, see the project homepage for it's exact location.

sofar

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[»] Comments needed!
by sofar - Jan 8th 2001 11:19:27

Hi there!

I'm very anxious for comments, patches, bugreports, well, anything actually!
Does Ferm behave you expected it to be? Do you like the way ferm handles
rules? Wish something would work differently? Anything else?

sofar

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[»] Re: Comments needed!
by Joost Cassee - Apr 16th 2002 07:36:39

I implemented IP filters for one gateway and two servers in a DMZ network with ferm, and it it VERY easy to setup. Way better then other filter setup scripts, because you don't lose the flexibility of the iptables system. The only thing missing is an init script to load a pre-defined ferm script (say, /etc/ip-filter.ferm). But this might be a job for packagers.

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