IPFire - An open source firewall solution

IPFire is a server distribution with intended to use as a firewall. It focuses on flexibility, and scales from small to middle sized business networks and home networks.

Along with this hardened, minimalist come lots of addons that can be installed with a simple click. That's what makes IPFire different from other firewall distributions: it is easy to configure for any task, and easy to administer once it's set up.


See what makes IPFire so great:

Security
Security

As the most important issue: Security updates are deployed regularly and promptly.

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Flexibility

Nowadays it is also important to act flexible and fit as best as possible into the environment. So does IPFire.

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Community
Community

The success of IPFire is based on the community that is working on the code and spreading IPFire to the world.

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IPFire 2.11 - Core Update 58 released

Posted by Arne Fitzenreiter on Sunday

It is time for the next maintainance update of the IPFire series 2 which is called Core Update 58. This update comes with cryptodev, a bunch of security fixes and minor bugfixes.

cryptodev has been ported from BSD and provides the kernel crypto system to the userspace. The advantages we gain from that is much faster hashing, encryption and decryption of data. On a normal system, the performance…

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Current version:
IPFire 2.11 - Core 58

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