IPFire in itself is basically a security platform (with firewall and router), which easily can be expanded and/or hardened with Addons. Start easy with a small home server with the basic features and then upgrade it quickly with many more useful features.

SO: Start with an easy and fast installed secure firewall and extend it to your needs.

The tool that makes this possible is called Pakfire. The IPFire developers built Pakfire with the goal to simplify the installation of addons or updates (that are often required) - within just a few mouse clicks.

Please find some additional information for the Addons below:

Currently we are offering two different groups of addons:

• STABLE: After an installation of IPFire, choose this to get tested and stable Addons with no significant errors (So far ) .

• TESTING: The testing part includes all addons available, sometimes not tested, nor stable. There could be many reasons for this status: For example, the developers might have no equipment available to test. To install one of these addons, some manual intervention may be required. Be a hero - test it and let us know.

You can find a list of selected addons below. Or take a look to the List of all Addons!

• The Samba addon offers a fast file server for Windows or heterogeneous networks.

• The NFS server offers the possibility to share files over the network.

• CUPS is a standard, open source, printing system over the network.

• The Mailserver that IPFire uses, is a mixture of Cyrus-IMAPd, Postfix and Openmailadmin.
• Additionally you can choose: Fetchmail, Spamassassin and ClamAV or other virus scanners.

• MPFire (TESTING) adds jukebox features to IPfire.
• Icecast streams the output of MPFire to the network.
• Gnump3d is a server for streaming MP3- and OGG-files.
• Video Disc Recorder / VDR is a video recording / streaming server for digital TV cards.
• Videolan (TESTING) The VLC player is a streamingserver solution - see more at : http://www.videolan.org

• Asterisk is the ideal platform for Voice over IP - have a look at: http://www.asterisk.org/
• Teamspeak offers you your own VoIP communication server at home. Brilliant for SWTOR or WoW Raids - find more at: http://www.teamspeak.com. (It is also possible to install a Teamspeak 3 Server)

• Guardian analyzes Snort-files and ssh-Logfiles and blocks the Source IP (so the IDS can be upgraded to an IPS).
• Tripwire is a Host-Based IDS System, t.m. it monitors local changes.
• Lynis is a Commandline Auditing Tool for a local scan of system and software.
• Cryptsetup with Cryptsetup and the Kernel Module “dmcrypt”, is it possible to create encrypted devices.
• PPTP (TESTING) VPN access through PPTP.
• mdadm With mdadm is it possible to create software RAID devices.

• RTorrent Bittorrent Client for ncurses written in C++ : it's small and fast.
• Transmission A Bittorrent Client with webinterface.

• Sane allows you to scan documents via the network with a webinterface.
• Qemu virtualization for guest OSses in IPFire - 64bit hardware and Hyper-V is recommended.
• Dirvish is a backup solution for IPFire (no regular IPFire addon!!!).
• TinyWebGalerie is a free PHP based WebGallery for IPFire.
• Apcupsd is a tool to monitor APC's Uninterupted Power Supplies (UPS).
• NUT TESTING Network UPS Tools.
• miau a bouncer for the IRC network.
• watchdog Watchdog daemon.
• pound TESTING Reverse proxy and load balancer.
• Tftpd IPFire as a Tftpd server.
• SideMenu EX Extension of IPFire´s Side menus (not a regular IPFire Addon!!).
• BackupPC Backup solution with webinterface (not a regular IPFire Addon!!!).
• Cacti Tool for visualization of network data with RRDtool and SNMP.
• Nagios powerful tool for the monitoring of complex IT infrastructures.
• EGroupware EGroupware is a powerful communication solution for companies and groups (not a regular IPFire Addon!!!).
• Xen Paravirtualization of guest operating system
• mdns-repeater - mDNS repeater daemon (in progress)
• Check_mk General purpose Nagios/Icinga plugin for retrieving data
• Sarg A graffical analysis tool for proxy reports, which can be used over the webinterface.

Some tools to optimize your network and for trouble shooting

• iperf test your network speed (LAN or WLAN).
• bwm-ng is a bandwidth monitor
• nmap is a versatile (and very mighty) ip/port scanner - see: http://nmap.org for further details
• tcpdump is a tool to watch and control your network connections
• iftop is a realtime bandwidth monitor
• traceroute is a network tool used to follow your packets through the internet
• Wireless IPFire with hostapd
• mtr combines the functions of traceroute and ping in one tool
• tcpick is a libpcap based textmode sniffer for TCP streams
• fping works like ping, but can be used eg. for scanning of complete networks

In this category you will find some shell Addons:

• centerIM is a lightweight IM client for Linux
• htop is a process viewer, like top but cooler
• mc the good old Midnight Commander; an easy to use file manager
• nano is a text editor, much easier to use than VI
• ncftp is an enhanced FTP client that can automate many of the login steps
• net-snmp is a snmp implementation amd more advanced than the basic snmpd
• rsync is a file copying and backup utility
• vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux
• igmpproxy is a simple multicast routing daemon based on mrouted
• lcd4linux grabs information and displays it on an external liquid crystal display

This category describes everything about the virtualization of IPFire.

• ipfire_installation_als_eine_domu,
• Debian_als_Dom0_(Xen)
• Debian Squeeze as Dom0 with Xen 4.x
• Debian Wheezy as Dom0 with Xen 4.1
• IPFire as HVM under XEN 4.0.1
• Open VMWare Tools