Welcome to the Sphirewall Project

Welcome, Sphirewall is a authenticating, captive portal firewall platform for GNU/Linux. With Sphirewall you can utilise all the features of a normal firewall with the added ability to manage access based on users and user groups, this is one of the features that seperates Sphirewall from other opensource products available.

Sphirewall also completely replaces iptables in the kernel with its own module and adds features that iptables does not offer.

Current features include: User authentication via web Captive portal redirect authentication Bandwidth and Http Monitoring Kerberos/ldap and Radius support Email event notifications IDS/IPS Full NAT and Route Management Runs independant of Iptables Traffic Shaping/QOS More Features Benefits: Free, as in free beer Simple to use, but Powerful Firewall User based network control Minimal External Dependencies Easy to use web management interface

This project is under heavy developement, to see where we are going, please have a look at our road map here