In the category Firewall: Open Source Date Added : August 19, 2006 03:22:04 PM URL: http://www.netfilter.org/
PageRank: 7
netfilter.org is home to the software of the packet filtering framework inside theLinux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel series. Software commonly associated with netfilter.org is iptables. Software inside this framework enables packet filtering, network address [and port] translation (NA[P]T) and other packet mangling. It is the re-designed and heavily improved successor of the previous Linux 2.2.x ipchains and Linux 2.0.x ipfwadm systems.