Description

flex-fw is a small and fast console frontend to iptables - tool for configuring Linux kernel firewall - with a syntax similar to pf, ipf or ipfw from BSD systems.

Features

• easy syntax
• service-oriented configuration
• variables
• network zones
• easy deployment
• few modes to run
• network profiles
• writen in pure ash/dash

Purpose

The main goal was making a lightweight tool to manage tons of iptables rules on multiple Linux hosts with a similar configuration

Latest news

2014-09-29

The release 0.3.1 has been issued.

Downloads

Installation

To install flex-fw follow the next instructions:

1. Check your OS is supported by flex-fw. The supported OSes are: Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS/RedHat, Slackware.
2. Download an appropriated package for your OS.
3. Install package by using standard package manager from your distro.
• Debian/Ubuntu

  # dpkg -i flex-fw-0.3.1-1_all.deb
  # apt-get -f install

• RedHat/CentOS

  # rpm -i flex-fw-0.3.1-1dve.noarch.rpm

• Slackware

  # pkg-install flex-fw-0.3.1-noarch-1dve.tgz

  for old releases, or

  # pkg-add flex-fw-0.3.1-all-1dve.txz

  for new releases.
4. Stop previously used software for filtering of network traffic if you have it
5. Look into /etc/flex-fw/services directory and add desired services with required rules
6. Set sequence of running for your custom services in the /etc/flex-fw/rc.d directory
7. Set the default policy for various iptables chains in the /etc/flex-fw/policy directory
8. Start flex-fw

   # /etc/init.d/flex-fw start

Enjoy!

Donations

If you would like to donate for this project, feel free to contact me for details. You can also send Bitcoins (QR) or Litecoins (QR).

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Copyright (C) 2014 Vitalii Druzhinin
aka VitalShell