Addons
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!
File Server
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.
Mail Server
MPFire (
TESTING) adds jukebox features to IPfire.
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Gnump3d is a server for streaming
MP3- and OGG-files.
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Voice over IP
Security
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.
P2P-Clients
RTorrent Bittorrent Client for ncurses written in C++ : it's small and fast.
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Miscellaneous
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!!!).
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Apcupsd is a tool to monitor APC's Uninterupted Power Supplies (UPS).
NUT TESTING Network UPS Tools.
miau a bouncer for the
IRC network.
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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
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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).
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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
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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
Binaries
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
Virtualization
This category describes everything about the virtualization of IPFire.