Setting Up Arno’s Firewall
About Arno’s Firewall
Very secure stateful filtering firewall Both kernel 2.4 & 2.6 support
It can be used for both single- and multi(eg. dual)-homed boxes
Masquerading (NAT) and SNAT support
Multiple external (internet) interfaces
Support multiroute masquerading (NAT)
Port forwarding (NAT)
Support MAC address filtering
Support for DSL/ADSL modems
Support for PPPoE, PPPoA and bridging modem setups
Support for static and ISP assigned (DHCP) IPs
Support for (transparent) proxies
Support for DMZ’s and DMZ-2-LAN forwarding
(Nmap)(stealth) portscan detection
Protection against SYN-flooding (DoS attacks)
Protection against ICMP-flooding (DoS attacks)
Extensive user-definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log flooding
Includes options to optimize your throughput
User definable open ports, closed ports, trusted hosts, blocked hosts etc.
Log & protection options are both highly customizable
Support for custom iptables rules in a seperate file
It can be used with chkconfig runlevel system (eg. RedHat/Fedora)
Main focus on TCP/UDP/ICMP but additional support for *ALL* IP protocols
It works with Freeswan IPSEC (VPN) & SSH Sentinel (http://www.freeswan.org) (+virtual IP’s)
It works with PoPTop PPTP (http://www.poptop.org)
It works with UPnP
DRDOS protection/detection (experimental)
It’s easy to configure
And much more…

















