Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GIPTables Firewall

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
Your project has been approved in Svannah and your application to the GNU
project has been forwarded. But please change your file COPYING by a verbatim
copy of the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt). The text of the
complete GPL should not be modified.

Cheers,
Jaime

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:35:45PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Adrian Pascalau <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: GIPTables Firewall
> System name: giptables
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> 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.