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Introduction

Welcome to GIPTables Firewall Homepage http://www.giptables.org
(distributed under GNU General Public License)

What is GIPTables Firewall?

GIPTables Firewall is a free set of shell scripts that helps you generate 
iptables rules for Linux 2.4.x and newer kernels. It is very easy to configure 
and at present, designed to run on hosts with one or two network cards. It 
doesn\'t require you to install any additional components to make it work with 
your GNU/Linux system. All you need to set-up a very secure firewall for your 
GNU/Linux machines is iptables and GIPTables Firewall.

GIPTables Firewall can be used very easily with a host that has only one 
network card, and this host can be a server or a workstation. It assumes that 
if your host has two network cards, then the host should be a Gateway Server 
that connects your INTERNAL private network to the EXTERNAL world (the 
Internet).

Access from your internal network to the external world is automatically 
controlled and filtered by the SNAT feature of iptables and GIPTables. This is 
well known in the GNU/Linux world as MASQUERADING. The DNAT feature of iptables 
and GIPTables automatically controls access from the Internet to your internal 
servers where the software will forwards specified incoming connections to your 
internal server.

GIPTables Firewall has many advantage compared to its competitors:

* It is easy to install and configure. 
* It does not require you to install any additional component to make it work. 
* It only needs iptables to run. 
* It is using NAT and masquerading for sharing internet access where you don\'t 
have enough addresses. 
* It is using the stateful packet filtering (connection tracking) feature of 
iptables. 
* It is automatically doing all kinds of network address translation. 
* It is using rate-limited connection and logging capability. 
* It provides good protection against all kind of TCP SYN-flooding Denial of 
Service attacks. 
* It provides good protections against IP spoofing. 
* It provides TCP packets heath check. 
* It runs on any type of GNU/Linux system. 
* It has a flexible and extensible infrastructure. 
* It is easy to adjust and modify for your needs. 
* It is small and does not use a lot of memory. 
* It merges cleanly with all native GNU/Linux programs. 
* It is well written and very powerful. 
* It covers all needs in a highly secure server environment. 
* It is open source, it is FREE and easy. 
* It is powered by GNU/Linux. 

GIPTables Firewall is simply the best firewall software to use with iptables. 
It comes with a myriad ready to use of predefined rules. To be protected all we 
need to do is to answer in its configuration file yes or no to the questions. 
Nothing more than that is required from your part to make it work.