servicewall 0.3

the desktop firewall that adapts to different network connections

ServiceWall

This firewall adapts to the changes in the connection name (the ESSID), using a set of rules for each of these realms.

Install it with # pip install servicewall

The firewall is disabled by default. To enable it now and at boot-time:

braise enable

Once started, the default behaviour is to drop all that come in, excepted for some community-useful services (details on this later). All that go out is allowed.

To have details on the status, use

braise show status

If it doesn't reply at all, then the firewall is down.

To allow a specific service, do

braise add Service Name

which will add this service to this realm's definition. If you connect to internet in another place, the rules for this place (identified by the ESSID of the connection) will be put aside, and brought back when you connect to it again.

Don't know what's the name of the service you want to allow ? You'll need to

braise show services

be careful, the list is quite long. Once you want exhaustive informations on a single service, do

braise show service Service Name

These rules are stored in a dictionary called realm_defs. To interrogate it, do

braise show realms

And in the end, the firewall logs all that it drops ; there's a log processor tool included ; try it with

braise show logs

or

braise show logs since NUMBER_OF_SECONDS

GNU Version 3 license