DAXFi Open source solution that will help you consistently configure your firewall
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Open source solution that will help you consistently configure your firewall DAXFi is a Python package that helps configure several different kinds of firewalls in a consistent way. The rules can be described with XML files, XML strings, or generated directly by the code.DAXFi comes with a Python package, useful to build other applications aimed to manipulate different firewalls in a homogeneous way and includes some useful example programs.How can you use DAXFi?If you are a developer:· maybe you need to develop an application to manage a firewall, and you want to stay independent from the syntax of a specific tool: you can import the daxfi Python package from your program, instantiate an object of the Firewall class and then use this object to create new rules (from XML files, XML strings or using methods of this object).Then you can easily execute these rules, see which of the rules are already running on your system, compare two rules and so on.If you are a user or a system/network administrator, you can use one of the programs already available:· with the daxfictl script you can add and remove firewall rules from the command line: you can rapidly grant or deny access to defined addresses; the script is smart enough to refuse to run a rule that already exists.· if you have a set of rules already running on your system, you can use the daxfidump script to obtain the equivalent set of XML files.· with daxfixmlfile you can write your rules in XML files, and then use this script to generate/run the commands for your firewall.· if you are connected via a dial-up, you can use daxfid: it's a script that helps configure a firewall for a dial-up system, and can run as daemon to adapt its behavior to external conditions (note: daxfid is a quite big and complex program, if you're new to DAXFi try playing with other scripts, first).Supported firewalls:· iptables· ipfilter· ipchains· ipfwadm What's New in This Release: · Applied every available patch.

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