welcome

Welcome to the Hardwall Firewall Homepage. This open source project is being actively developed. The Hardwall Firewall is a firewall configuration script which is developed to run in the linux 2.4 and 2.6 series kernels utilising the IP Tables Netfilter for the linux kernel.

All of the information you should need can be found in the navigation menu to the left. To find out about the latest developments, please check the current news page. All of our older news items are still available, however for convenience are moved into the archived news section.

HardWall Firewall is an iptables firewall script that provides port forwarding, packet filtering, stateful packet inspection, port redirection, masquerading, SNAT, DNAT, NAT, and bridging. It functions as both a workstation firewall and an IP forwarding firewall.