-------------------------------------------------------------------- $Id$ -------------------------------------------------------------------- IPFWADM - Version 2.3.0 - July 30, 1996 Copyright (c) 1995,1996 by X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV. This is free software. See below for details. Ipfwadm is a utility to administer the IP accounting and IP firewall services offered by the Linux kernel. This version (2.3.0) of ipfwadm requires Linux kernel version 1.3.66 or later. To use some of the new features (transparent proxying and input-only/output-only accounting rules) you need kernel 2.0.0 or later. Check out ipfwadm's home page on the World Wide Web http://www.xos.nl/linux/ipfwadm/ for the most recent information about ipfwadm and recent kernel (in)compatibilities (if any). Look at the accompanying manual page, ipfwadm(8), for a description of how to use this program. The ipfw(4) manual page describes the kernel level interface of the IP accounting/firewall services. Look at the above mentioned WWW-page for more information (whenever available). This utility is meant to be a replacement for the existing ipfw(8) utility, as found in the net-tools package. Ipfwadm was made to be more complete and easier to use than ipfw. Among the features offered by ipfwadm are: - Changing default policies for all firewall categories. - Automatically adding the necessary extra rules when the named hosts have more than one IP address. - Support for specifying the interface address and/or name. - Listing and resetting packet/byte counters "atomically" for setting up a reliable accounting scheme. - Listing the existing rules in a number of formats. - Support for optional functions (bidirectional rules, TCP ACK and SYN flag matching, changing the IP TOS-field). - Specifying input-only or output-only accounting rules. - Redirection support (used for tranparent proxying). - Masquerading support, including listing active sessions and specifying timeout values. - A complete manual page. The original sources for this package can be found at ftp://ftp.xos.nl/pub/linux/ipfwadm/ipfwadm-2.3.0.tar.gz The README file contains this text. The file COPYING contains a copy the GNU General Public License. ChangeLog contains a brief description of the change history. The LSM file contains the LSM entry for ipfwadm. To make, simply type make ipfwadm in the source directory. Install to your liking. We suggest the following pathnames: /sbin/ipfwadm /usr/man/man8/ipfwadm.8 /usr/man/man4/ipfw.4 This will be done automatically when calling make install in the source directory. Jos Vos -------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1995,1996 by X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV. All rights reserved. X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV Kruislaan 419 1098 VA Amsterdam The Netherlands E-mail: info@xos.nl WWW: http://www.xos.nl/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. --------------------------------------------------------------------