Projects tagged ‘networking’ and ‘router’

OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and ... [More] configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. [Less]

Zenoss is an IT infrastructure monitoring product that allows you to monitor your entire infrastructure within a single, integrated software application.Key features include: Monitors the entire stack: networks, servers, applications, services, power, environment, etc.

m0n0wall (monowall) is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of ... [More] the price (free software). m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server, PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent. m0n0wall is probably the first UNIX system that has its boot-time configuration done with PHP, rather than the usual shell scripts, and that has the entire system configuration stored in XML format. [Less]

Endian Firewall Community is a "turn-key" linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionality. The software has been de signed with "usability in mind" and is ... [More] very easy to install, use and manage, without losing its flexibility. The features include a stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spamfiltering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a "hassle free" VPN solution (based on OpenVPN). The main advantage of Endian Firewall is that it is a pure "Open Source" solution that is sponsored by Endian. [Less]

IPCop Linux is a complete Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to protect the networks on which it is installed.

eBox is a framework for the development and deployment of network services in small and medium-sized networks, offering a simplified graphical interface to non expert users. It can be set up as a gateway, having some extra features over a usual router.

The pfSense software group is a group of firewalling, operating system and usability enthusiast. Each member is dedicated to create a eye popping firewall platform that can be easily administered using a web 2.0 driven GUI. pfSense is an open ... [More] source firewall derived from the m0n0wall operating system platform with radically different goals such as using OpenBSD's ported Packet Filter, FreeBSD 6.1 ALTQ (HFSC) for excellent packet queuing and finally an integrated package management system for extending the environment with new features. [Less]

EasyBSD is a modular automation script designed to assist in the extensive post installation process that is required in FreeBSD. The following are modules that are included with EasyBSD, Checks, Update, Security, Networking, Firewall, Recommended Ports, Tips and Tweaks, Daemon, and Universe.

Vyatta software is a Linux-based, open-source networking (router, firewall, VPN) solution that leverages x86 hardware and components to deliver a flexible, affordable alternative to Cisco 1800 through 7200 series routers. Vyatta is a enterprise class, commercial open source offering with a staff of full-time engineers and support personnel.

FreeWRT is a meta GNU/Linux distribution for embedded systems. In this context "meta" means, you can build the complete distribution from source. FreeWRT is meant to be an appliance development kit (ADK) especially designed for embedded system developers and advanced users.

IPFire is new-developed firewall build with the latest releases of linux 2.6 and tools. You are able to install a lot of addons and you will see a firewall can become a home server.

Nuface is an intuitive firewall configuration interface for EdenWall/NuFW as well as for Netfilter. It lets you use high level objects, agglomerate objects into ACLs, and deals with generating Netfilter rules as well as LDAP Acls for NuFW.

Hardened Linux is a secured and minimalized operating system designed to run as a firewall, IDS host, authentication system and VPN gateway.

SME Server is a leading distribution for small and medium enterprises. It stands apart from the competition by shipping with most common functionality preconfigured and features a number of popular additional enhancements in the form of ... [More] downloadable 'contributions'. It is published under the GPL license and while freely available, a small donation is requested. [Less]

This project wants to provide useful tools for routing simple small private networks using a dial-up or broadband link. These tools consist of firewall and traffic shaping tools currently. Any feedback is welcome.

Netdisco is a network management application targeted at large corporate and university networks. Data is collected into a Postgres database using SNMP and presented with a clean web interface using Mason. Designed for moderate to large networks ... [More] , configuration information and connection data for network devices are retrieved by SNMP. With Netdisco you can locate the switch port of an end-user system by IP or MAC address. Data is stored using a SQL database for scalability and speed. Layer-2 topology protocols such as CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) optionally provides automatic discovery of the network topology. The network is inventoried by both device model and operating system (like IOS). Netdisco uses router ARP tables and L2 switch MAC forwarding tables to locate nodes on physical ports and track them by their IP addresses. For each node, a time stamped history of the ports it has visited and the IP addresses it has used is maintained. Netdisco gets all its data, including topology information, with SNMP polls and DNS queries. It does not use CLI access and has no need for privilege passwords. Security features include a wire-side Wireless Access Point (AP) locator. The project is supported by a community of open-source developers, headed by Eric Miller, Bill Fenner, and Max Baker. [Less]

A gateway implementation of the NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) to allow applications on a private network to acquire publicly-accessible TCP and UDP ports.

ROBIN (ROuting Batman Inside) is an Open Source mesh network project, deployed on top of OpenWRT kamikaze, running on any Atheros AP51 routers (such as Meraki Mini, La Fonera and others) and using OLSR or BATMAN as routing algorithm. ROBIN spreads ... [More] a wired internet connection such as a DSL throughout an apartment complex, neighborhood, village or school, and work on a variety of commonly available, low-cost hardware. [Less]

OpenBox4 is a project that aims at creating an alternative firmware for the Neuf Box 4 (the DSL gateway/router from Neuf Cegetel, the second largest ISP in France).

This is PEWIT, Polling Enlightens WIreless neTworks. It serves a so-called "Polling Method" to solve the hidden station problem in wireless networks. Thanks to this scheduling algorithm, no packet collision will occur in theory. So, PEWIT makes outdoor wireless networks more efficient.

Nightwing allows the creation of fast deployment wireless networks and without the need to make complicated configurations that allows the extention of the network. From the implementation of a Mesh technology called B.A.T.M.A.N, Nightwing allows the ... [More] extention of Wireless Network with the simplicity of adding devices and that works with a minimal human intervention. [Less]

SAB Gateway is a versatile WLAN access controller implemented in Perl. It delivers easy-to-use broadband access at the WLAN hotspot without requiring the end-user to install any client-side software.

Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely ... [More] independent, which provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, ipfw, OpenBSD pf, Cisco PIX, and FWSM. [Less]

AutoCfgBackup is primarily intented for a larger network. As soon as you have a certain, maybe even growing number of network devices to manage, you need to take care of the configuration; you’ll want to have each device’s config in place in case ... [More] of a failure, configuration mistake, whatever. AutoCfgBackup will run from cron. It will download configuration from all network devices, which you configured for backup. There’s also the possibility to copy the device’s config by some other means and let AutoCfgBackup use the pre-downloaded file. After that, it will compare the newly downloaded config with the latest saved config. If changes occur, it will archive the new config. Otherwise, it will continue. Comparing files is done with md5sum, so it’s expected to work with both binary and ascii text files. AutoCfgBackup can also use filters when comparing configs. Often, configs contain lines which change automatically everyday and which don’t represent a real config change. This includes “config created at” timestamps, cisco’s “ntp clock-period”, and some others. You can define filters for specific devices yourself. More information is in the sample config file. For downloading, AutoCfgBackup supports Cisco devices with the CISCO-CONFIG-COPY MIB, as well as HTTP (with optional authentication), FTP, telnet and pre-downloaded files. For archiving, I implemented 2 ways: you can either use rcs, which is the prefered method for text files, or a roll-over system, where you keep a backlog of old files, renaming them to .1, .2, .3, etc. Just like what logrotate does to your syslogs. AutoCfgBackup also supports notification of changes by email, in diff (+/-) style, so you get a daily overview of config changes which occured in your network. Good to keep up with what your colleagues are doing all day! [Less]

libproxy is a library that provides automatic proxy configuration management.