The release of the distribution kit for creating routers and firewalls IPFire 2.27 Core 160 has been published. IPFire is distinguished by a simple installation process and organization of configuration through an intuitive web interface, replete with visual graphs. The size of the installation iso image is 406 MB (x86_64, i586, ARM, AArch64).
The system is modular, in addition to the basic functions of packet filtering and traffic management for IPFire, modules are available with the implementation of the system to prevent attacks based on Suricata, to create a file server (Samba, FTP, NFS), a mail server (Cyrus-IMAPd, Postfix, Spamassassin, ClamAV and Openmailadmin) and a print server (CUPS), organizing a VoIP gateway based on Asterisk and Teamspeak, creating a wireless access point, organizing a streaming audio and video server (MPFire, Videolan, Icecast, Gnump3d, VDR). To install add-ons in IPFire, a special package manager Pakfire is used.
In the new release:
- Preparations have been made to remove support for Python 2 in the next release of IPFire. The distribution itself is no longer tied to Python 2, but some user scripts continue to use this branch.
- To reduce latency and increase throughput during intensive traffic processing in the network subsystem, attachment of packet handlers, network interfaces and queues to the same CPU cores is enabled to reduce migration between different CPU cores and increase the efficiency of processor cache usage.
- Support for service redirection has been added to the firewall engine.
- Charts have been converted to use the SVG format.
- Provided the ability to use a web proxy on systems without an internal network.
- The log shows protocol names instead of numbers.
- Updated versions of cURL 7.78.0, ddns 014, e2fsprogs 1.46.3, ethtool 5.13, iproute2 5.13.0, less 590, libloc 0.9.7, libhtp 5.0.38, libidn 1.38, libssh 0.9.6, OpenSSH 8.7p1 in the base distribution , openssl 1.1.1k, pcre 8.45, poppler 21.07.0, sqlite3 3.36, sudo 1.9.7p2, strongswan 5.9.3, suricata 5.0.7, sysstat 12.5.4, sysfsutils 2.1.1.
- Updated versions of alsa 1.2.5.1, bird 2.0.8, clamav 0.104.0, faad2 2.10.0, freeradius 3.0.23, frr 8.0.1, Ghostscript 9.54.0, hplip 3.21.6, iperf3 3.10.1, lynis 3.0.6, mc 7.8.27, monit 5.28.1, minidlna 1.3.0, ncat 7.91, ncdu 1.16, taglib 1.12, Tor 0.4.6.7, traceroute 2.1.0, Postfix 3.6.2, spice 0.15.0.
Source: opennet.ru