FireHOL
The facts below are what the maker publishes about FireHOL, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From FireHOL's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| FireHOL and FireQOS | Free | GPLv2+ licensed software |
The facts
Each one read from FireHOL's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Auditability
- The FAQ describes explain and debug features that show generated iptables statements and advises users to audit the resulting firewall.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Connection alerts
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Distribution support
- The installation page lists packages or instructions for Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat/CentOS, Arch Linux, and OpenWRT.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Firewall behavior
- FireHOL uses a deny-by-default approach and automatically handles replies to allowed requests.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Firewall tool
- FireHOL is a language and program that builds stateful firewalls from human-readable configurations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- IPv4 and IPv6
- FireHOL and FireQOS abstract differences between IPv4 and IPv6 and can apply rules to either or both.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The project states that all of FireHOL is available under the GPLv2+ license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limit
- The homepage says FireHOL does not directly support QoS, though ordinary iptables commands can be embedded in its configuration.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Outbound control
- advancedchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Release verification
- Site tar-file releases include MD5 and SHA512 checksums, and official releases also include detached GPG signatures.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- Recent versions rely on iprange and common shell and networking commands available on modern Linux distributions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Rule direction
- bothchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Support
- The FAQ invites questions and points users to a support mailing list for security-problem updates.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported services
- FireHOL includes definitions for services such as HTTP, SMTP, SSH, DNS, FTP, NFS, and Samba, and users can define additional services.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Traffic shaping
- FireQOS configures traffic shaping from a flexible configuration file and can report status or dump traffic for a class.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Use cases
- Listed uses include DMZ routers and servers, NAT, flood and spoofing protection, blacklists and whitelists, and bandwidth limits.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- linuxchecked 22 Sep 2026
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