NuFW 2.2.9 Released
http://www.techenigma.com/articles/1760/1/NuFW-229-Released/Page1.html
By Friso van Kuilenburg
Published on 30/11/2007
A new version is out now! NuFW adds user-based filtering to Netfilter, the state of the art IP filtering layer from the Linux kernel. Its exclusive algorithm allows authenticated filtering even on multiuser computers.
NuFW 2.2.9
NuFW - An authenticating firewall
New version of NuFW is out now! NuFW adds user-based filtering to Netfilter, the state of the art IP filtering layer from the Linux kernel. Its exclusive algorithm allows authenticated filtering even on multiuser computers.
NuFW is available under GPLv3 licence.
NuFW Capabilities
NuFW can :
- Authenticate any connection that goes through your gateway or only from/to a chosen subset or a specific protocol.
- Perform accounting, routing and quality of service based on users and not simply on IPs.
- Filter packets with criterium such as application and OS used by distant users.
- Log all traffic in SQL with username and application information
- Be the key of a secure and simple Single Sign On system.
Changelog
The full changelog is as follows:
- nuauth: leave when a module fails to load
- nuauth: correctly fills headers of messages to nufw
- laintext module: parse needed files at start
- nufw: ignore return of nfq_unbind_pf() due to change in linux 2.6.23.
- nuauth: introduce nuauth_proto_wait_delay to get around a nasty connection problem on laggy network.