more security for your network

IPFire is a source-based linux firewall distribution that brings additional features with it. The easy-to-set-up system defeats its competitiors like IPCop, Smoothwall and Endian-Firewall potty. A stateful-inspection-firewall with a luxuriant content-filtering-engine plus traffic-control (QoS) rounded with latest vpn-technology and a lot of logging is foolproof to administer with just a very few clicks.

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"Modular system" is the principle of IPFire.
There is a big number of addons. See the short list below:

  • - Intrusion-Prevention-System Snort(Guardian) and more security tools Tripwire and Lynis
  • - File- and printserver for heterogeneous networks (Samba, CUPS, FTP & NFS)
  • - Voice-over-IP solution with Asterisk and Teamspeak plus traffic prioritization
  • - Multimedia addons (video- & audio-streaming, jukebox)
  • - WLan Access Point with hostap and many Atheros Chips
  • - and many more - List of all Addons

2008/11/08 - IPFire 2.3 Final

  • Get it quick

Dear Community!
This day, we released the final version of IPFire 2.3.

Major changes since the first version 2.1 in November 2007

  • DNS-Securityupdate and many more packet updates
  • Enhancement of the packet manager
  • Improvement of the Quality-of-Service rules - Presets for QoS
  • Adjustable Firewall Logging
  • Kernel-Modules for better hardware suport
  • Change the system statistic to „collectd"
  • Better disk handling (S.M.A.R.T. and Standby)
  • Status- and Serviceview in the Webinterface
  • Proxy and Redirector now work more dynamic


    • In addition the 2.3 will change the following things
  • Kernel update to Linux-2.6.25.19
  • Update of many more packets (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, Squid, Snort, collectd, ntfs-3g, Openswan, Updatexlrator, iptables, l7protocols)
  • With severall Atheros Chips IPFire is able to work as Wireless Access Point
  • Better support of UMTS-3G-Modems
  • Use of tmpfs to reduce disk reads and writes
  • Better hardware monitoring by the use of lmsensors
  • Vnstat Traffic-Accounting replaces ipac-ng


    • The IPFire Team


    2008/10/26 - IPFire 2.3 RC 1

    • Check it out

    Dear Community!
    This day, we released the first Release Candidate of IPFire 2.3.
    Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum: Click!

    The IPFire Team


    2008/10/13 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 5

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    Dear Community!
    This day, we released the fifth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
    Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum: Click!
    We finally had to do bigger changes and though: This is beta #5!

    The IPFire Team


    2008/10/11 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 4

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    Dear Community!
    This day, we released the fourth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
    Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum: Click!
    We hope that many of you will install this new version and give some feedback, so we're able to have a well tested version and go quickly forward to the Release Candidates.

    Maniac for the team of IPFire


    2008/08/25 - One year passed - IPFire 2.1

    • "The best is yet to come."

    Dear Community!
    It is almost a year ago, we´ve finalized the 2.1 and started the BETA process for the final release. After two hard months 2.1 was released in november 2007. Here are some very interisting numbers to show the growing interest for IPFire and its ongoing developement.
    Stats can be found here Stats 1 Stats 2

    We want to thank all of you and hope IPFire will spread more and more

    Maniacikarus for the IPFire-Team


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