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IPFire_ More Than A Firewall

Secure Your Network with IPFire – The Open-Source Firewall You Can Trust

IPFire_ is the world's leading Open Source firewall distribution. Businesses across the world have chosen to put their trust in our versatile, feature-rich solution with its easy-to-use web management console. Why not join them today?

Security by Design

Network segmentation is the key to a secure network. IPFire sets up a DMZ for your local infrastructure or a guest network for any visitors separating and protecting other parts of your network.

Industry-Leading Firewall Engine

Our stateful packet inspection firewall engine analyses traffic for the latest threats and performs deep packet inspection in real time. Due to our smart user interface, creating even complex setups is quick and straight-forward.

We Connect the World

We securely connect your employees to their desks at home, your global business partners and the infrastructure in your data centre, giving you maximum flexibility so that you can focus on what really matters.

Easy to Use

IPFire is managed over a web-based console which is powerful, yet easy to use. Each feature is just one click away. Advanced reporting and real time graphs give you detailed insight into your network.

Supporting Global Standards

Commonly deployed in businesses and educational organisations of all sizes, IPFire interoperates perfectly with solutions from other vendors making it an ideal drop-in replacement.

Free As In Freedom

IPFire is free software. Our community develops and reviews all changes going into the code base and IPFire is regularly audited by independent third parties. Become a part of the community and help us to continue improving IPFire!

Appliances and Support

Experience next-level security with our high-performance appliances, crafted to optimize IPFire's capabilities. Whether you're fortifying a business infrastructure or safeguarding your home network, we have the right appliance solution tailored for you.

We are your partners in ensuring continuous network security. Our support solutions keep your systems running smoothly, providing peace of mind in the ever-evolving landscape of security.

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Recent News

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 198 released
October 28 by Michael Tremer
IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 198 is here — and it’s a big one. This release brings a major upgrade to our Intrusion Prevention System with Suricata 8, delivering improved performance, deeper inspection capabilities, and greater reliability. But the real breakthrough comes in how IPFire keeps you informed: real-time email reporting and beautifully designed PDF reports now give you instant insight into network activity, highlighting critical alerts and providing a clear, auditable trail of every event. This all comes on top of the usual package updates and a toolchain update.
OpenVPN - One Simple & Unified Client Configuration
October 6 by Michael Tremer
If you have deployed a new OpenVPN client our last update, you will have noticed that you probably did it much faster than last time. Gone are the fragile ZIP container which holds a number of files of which you never remembered which one does which?
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