FireHOL
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Programming language
- shell script
- Author
- Costa Tsaousis
- Latest release
- 3.1.7
- Latest release date
Project health
Usage and audience
FireHOL is commonly used for firewall management or network traffic filtering. Target users for this tool are general public and system administrators.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 500 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
FireHOL is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a firewall management tool.