

Pattern files are small text files, easy to add and edit, and the system contains a method of testing them. Files to scan, the relevant ports to block for the file and the regular expressions for matching are all contained in a set of files in patterns.d. The system contains a log file scanner that uses regular expressions to detect unwanted access and then creates files in the blacklist.d directory to block access to any matched IP address. or Quick Users' Guide gives a more task oriented decription.Īutomatic blacklisting. The directory contents are described in detail in the User's Guide, while the How do I. Changing the firewall is simply a matter of making or removing a file in one of these directories. These files can contain ports, again modifying the action of the rule. Two more directories, blacklist.d and whitelist.d, contain IP addresses, blocking or allowing access for specific addresses. These files are usually empty, but can contain IP addresses to make the rule more specific. The incoming.d and outgoing.d directories supply rules allowing access to ports for incoming and outgoing connections. Placing files in the directories create firewall rules configured from the file names. See the installation document Installing nftfw from Debian package.Įasy-to-use firewall admin. For safety reasons, nftfw needs some configuration after installation.
#Iptables firewall builder manual install zip file#
Nftfw can be installed from a Debian binary package, there is a zip file in the package directory containing the most recent version in nftfw_current.zip. The package is written in Python 3 and needs at least the 3.6 release. It should work on other Linux distributions. Nftfw doesn't need Sympl or Symbiosis, it's stand-alone and will run on any Debian Buster or Bullseye system. To block an IP address with a specific set of ports, you just add a file. The firewall is controlled using files in a directory structure that maps onto the sections of the active firewall. The model was created for the iptables based firewall package supplied as part of Bytemark's Symbiosis hosting package and also for Sympl, a fork of Symbiosis. The system creates a simple and easy-to-use configuration model for firewall management. The nftfw package builds firewalls for nftables.
