Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : ftwall2 Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Chris Lowth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.lowth.com/p2pwall/ftwall2/ * License : GPL Description : P2P network firewall (Kazaa, Winmx, opennap, iMesh etc.)
(Include the long description here.) NEW: http://www.lowth.com/p2pwall/ftwall2/ OLD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/p2pwall MORE INFO Linux journal article 2003-08-31: Securing Your Network against Kazaa http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6945 DESCRIPTION The P2Pwall project aims to provide iptables add-ins for the control of Peer to peer file sharing traffic from applications such as Kazaa, iMesh and others. Ftwall-2 is an updated version of the original ftwall-1 software which adds new P2p protocols to the set it can control. Ftwall-2 is an add-on for linux firewalls that allows the control of "Fast Track" peer-to-peer traffic (such as is used by "Kazaa" and it's derivatives), WinMX and others using the OpenNAP protocol. It is designed to block network traffic from P2P client applications running in the "home" (or "green") network from making access to any peers on the public internet. It is designed primarily for use in networks where the security reigme allows "open access" for outbound connections and "tightly limited" access for inbound ones. Ftwall-2 can be used in networks like this to prevent outbound P2P access from the supported protocols, hence restricting illegal file downloads and uploads. A Fast track "home network" client that establishes an "outbound" connection is (worryingly) immediately available to accept inbound connections through the established TCP/IP socket - even if the gateway firewall blocks all in-bound connections via "normal" TCP/IP and UDP mechanisms. This is a kind of limited "tunnelling" and gives rise to a number of concerns. Other P2P applications and protocols present similar security challenges. Ftwall solves this (and other) problems for the protocols it understands. - "Ftwall" is short for "Fast Track traffic Firewall". - "Fast track" is the networking protocol used by Kazaa, KazaaLite, iMesh and Grokster. - "Ftwall" is part of the "p2pwall" project, which aims to provide similar mechanisms for other peer-to-peer file sharing protocols in future. - "P2pwall" is short for "Peer-to-peer traffic firewall". - Ftwall version 2 is also capable of blocking WinMX and OpenNAP - and in this, it's name is a historical misnoma. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
