Packages wishlist?
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I find it difficult to determine, what else should be running on the firewall machine. If squid is on, I'd suggest the following should be as well:
Privoxy: web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Tor: toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.
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Oh, forgot one thing which may be quite important:
APCUPSD: You definitely also want your firewall machine hanging on your UPS, if you performed a full installation on a harddrive.
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a dshield package, and a fixed freeradius package with webgui integration
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Nagios would be a good package
What about something like NRPE (nagios remote plugin executor) and the plugins? Useful for checking stuff behind the NAT and/or firewall from an external nagios install.
Would people find these useful? NRPE and some plugins? What plugins would be most useful (other than check_ping)
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I'd like to see more package maintainers. This pie in the sky discussion is great but there is nobody to implement these ideas.
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Any idea for SARG (Squid Analysis Report Generator)!
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POUND - REVERSE-PROXY AND LOAD-BALANCER
http://www.apsis.ch/pound/The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away.
This would be good for running mutiple web servers with limited IPs or just plain old load balancing for applications. Can route HTTP request to backend web server based on domain/host name.
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My wishlist would be improvements to:
* Web Proxy Content Filtering
* Web & Email Anti-Virus Scanning ProxiesProxy filtering has been tossed around quite a bit, notably with SquidGuard, but looking for a solution that checks based on actual content scanning (as opposed to just list checking). Something similar to DansGuardian (but with a more open licence) would be great. And if we're scanning the content anyway, it would be great if virus signature scanning could be done at the same time.
It would also be nice to have a lightweight (relative to sendmail/postfix anyway) SMTP reverse proxy capable of scanning email for junk and virus signatures. This would be a transparent reverse proxy for SMTP (& SMTPS?), preventing junk mail and virus emails from ever making it to the mail servers inside. (Check out ASSP and DspamPD if you're looking to get a better idea of the concept.)
Both of these wishlist ideas are not exactly 'lightweight' and may not belong on a box that's strictly a firewall, but they do both protect the inside from the outside, and would be a good fit for many smaller orgs without dedicated resources for these.
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I'd like an interface to allow creation of firewall rules based on GEOIP data. Many organizations provide services within a limited geographical area, and could live without all the traffic from regions outside those service areas. I've seen examples of pf implementations, but I'm not sure what would be required to integrate this functionality into pfsense.
Kirk
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I'd like an interface to allow creation of firewall rules based on GEOIP data. Many organizations provide services within a limited geographical area, and could live without all the traffic from regions outside those service areas. I've seen examples of pf implementations, but I'm not sure what would be required to integrate this functionality into pfsense.
Kirk
That might be quite easy with the uopcoming alias features of pfSense (already implemented in the HEAD tree), where you can update your aliases frequently by downloading an external file (see http://pfsense.com/~sullrich/pics/SampleAlias.PNG for a screenshot of that already implemented feature).
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Nylon (socks proxy) would be nice to see.
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An interesting (though probably very difficult to add) package would be TorrentFlux:
http://www.torrentflux.com/
Basically, it's a web-based torrent manager. Ever since I ran across this, I've thought the concept was pretty neat. You can even configure it to automatically remove the torrent once you've shared it a number of times. It looks like it even has its own user system. With this as a package you may be able to block torrent downloads behind the firewall and only allow them through this interface, where traffic shaping is in control of the bandwidth utilization rules you've set up… Each user on the network could have a login so that they could download torrents in a controlled manner, so each workstation isn't competing for the bandwidth.
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Would people find these useful? NRPE and some plugins? What plugins would be most useful (other than check_ping)
Yep. Horribly useful! We currently use (and I would be glad to use on pfSense):
check_nrpe!check_total_procs (processes)
check_nrpe!check_disk1 (discspace - you never know what hits your logfile)
check_nrpe!check_load (load)
check_nrpe!check_ping (ping - different hosts)
a check for the firewall / packet filter itself
check_ntp
check_ssh
(and perhaps for pfsenses GUI check_http(s))These would sure be nice additions dreams Full integration into Nagios… blinks
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I would like to see one package to SARG (Squid Analysis Report Generator).
I'm starting to use pfsense 1.0-RC2 4 days ago. Great work! How can I build one SARG package?
Thanks,
fricardo
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There is not much documentation on how to create a package, however some pointers can be found where to start at the forum. Please search.
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I would like to see ipfm + scr_ipfm integrated
Keep up the good work.
Greetings Darek
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the good service to addon pfsense…apcupsd for APC UPS...
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It would also be nice to have a lightweight (relative to sendmail/postfix anyway) SMTP reverse proxy capable of scanning email for junk and virus signatures. This would be a transparent reverse proxy for SMTP (& SMTPS?), preventing junk mail and virus emails from ever making it to the mail servers inside. (Check out ASSP and DspamPD if you're looking to get a better idea of the concept.
ASSP doesn't support AV scanning and DspamPD hasn't been actively developed for over a year.
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I liked the idea of a 'voting system' for package suggestions. I would really like to see something out there to enforce corporate content-filtering policies. Right now, the squid package somewhat addresses the web side. The SMTP part is a bit less interesting unless you are putting the firewall in your production environment (as opposed to office) where it can behave as a server-side proxy. I have successfully used transparent POP3 proxying in the past. However, I dont think its a very clean way of doing email filtering.
The one still missing from most distros is instant messaging proxying/filtering for the main clients (MSN/Yahoo/AOL/Google). This would allow for a complete content-filtering solution. (Web + IM, while mail is imparted). Note that some suggested antivirus support for the web proxy, this is fairly difficult to implement, and very unefficient. (Because the proxy cant really know if its a virus until the download is .. well.. done).
As for SMTP filtering (SpamAssassin and such) - I do think that spam filtering without a proper quarantaine solution is a bit wreckless. As such, I would be tempted to leave the spam filtering to a dedicated solution. However, blocking malicious code and extensions as well as defanging potentially dangerous dynamic content are all very feasible tasks. I myself would tend to focus on these features.
Someone proposed bind as a package. I find the mention of bind running on a firewall a little disturbing =P I frankly don't really see the point of running DNS off a firewall. It seems somewhat off-focus.
Just my 2 cents -
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Congrats on the gold release! I've been impressed with pfsense from the beginning when I discovered it from a m0n0wall source.
My 2 cents on the packages wishlist:
-FakeAP(http://www.blackalchemy.to/project/fakeap/)
-Linblock (http://www.dessent.net/linblock/) this is really just a script but I have no clue how to implement it on BSD
-A package allowing you to provide a one-time (expiring) link to a file download from the local freeNAS raid volumes (scawf if you want…)These were already talked about but I 2nd the request for these:
snort
nagios
asterisk
tftp/pxe capabilities
dansguardian
cupsI saw these in the list pre 1.0 so I'm hoping they'll get re-added:
freeradius
freeNASThanks for listening!
