Addons

The IPFire firewall and router is at its core a securty platform, which can optionally be expanded or made even more secure with addons. So it is possible very quickly a small home server with many useful features.

The tool which makes this possible is called pakfire. The IPFire developers have built pakfire with the goal of simplifying the installation of an addon or updateoften requiring just a few mouse clicks.

General safety information for addons are highlighted in the following articles.

Currently there are two different groups of addons:

• stable: After an installation of IPFire the only addons available are those which were tested and stable with no significant errors.

• unstable or testing: The unstable or testing trunk includes all addons that were previously available, but not tested or stable. There could be many reasons for this status. For example, the developers might have no hardware available to test the addon. To install one of these addons, some manual intervention is required.

Below is a 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.

• The mail server IPFire uses is a mix of Cyrus-IMAPd, Postfix and Openmailadmin. Additionally there is also Fetchmail, Spamassassin and ClamAV or perhaps other virus scanners of your choice.

• MPFire (TESTING) adds jukebox features to IPfire.
• Icecast streams the output of MPFire into the network.
• Gnump3d server for streaming MP3- and OGG-files.
• VDR (TESTING) is a video recording / streaming server for digital TV cards.

• Asterisk (TESTING) is the ideal plattform for Voice over IP.
• Teamspeak offers VoIP communication.

• Guardian analyze the Snort and ssh-Logfile and block the Source IP (so the IDS mutates into an IPS).
• Tripwire is a Host-Based IDS System, t.m. it monitors local changes.
• Lynis Lynis is a Commandline Audit Tool for a local scan of the system and the software.
• Cryptsetup with Cryptsetup and the Kernel Modul dmcrypt is it possible, to create crypted devices.

• Applejuice P2P-Client for the Applejuice network.
• MLDonkey P2P-Client for E-Mule, BitTorrent, Overnet, Gnutella a.m.m..
• RTorrent Bittorrent Client for ncurses written in C++ and so very slim and fast.

• Sane allows you to scannen over the network with a webinterface.
• Qemu virtualization of guest OS on the IPFire.
• esniper is a small EBay-Tool with webfrontend. It provides functions for automatic bidding.
• dirvish backup solution for IPFire (no regular IPFire addon!!!)
• TinyWebGalerie free PHP based WebGalerie for IPFire.
• apcupsd tool to monitoring Uninterruptible power supply from the company APC.
• NUT Network UPS Tools.
• miau a bouncer for the IRC network.
• watchdog a software watchdog.

In this category are small addons for the shell:

• bwm-ng is a small console-based live network and disk I/O bandwidth monitor
• centerIM is a lightweight IM client for Linux
• htop a process viewer, like top but cooler
• mc Midnight Commander, easy to use file manager
• nano an easy to use text editor
• ncftp is an enhanced FTP client that automates many of the login steps
• net-snmp an snmp implementation more advanced than the basic snmpd
• nmap a versatile ip/port scanner
• rsync a file copying and backup utility
• tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line
• iftop a realtime bandwidth monitor
• traceroute is a computer network tool used to determine the route taken by packets across an IP network
• videolan a video streaming and encoding utility
• vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux
• igmpproxy is a simple multicast routing daemon based on mrouted

This category describes everything about the virtualisation of IPFire.

• ipfire_installation_als_eine_domu,
• Debian_als_Dom0_(Xen)