vallumd
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv3
- Programming language
- C
- Author
- Stijn Tintel
- Latest release
- 0.1.4
- Latest release date
Project health
Links
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Why this tool?
This tool provides a centralized method to distribute ipset blacklists.
How it works
Vallumd connects to an MQTT broker. It reads any messages and acts on those that contain IP addresses with the related action (add or delete). This particular IP address then gets added to the related ipset blacklist.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Vallumd is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a centralized and distributed firewall tool and network traffic filtering tool.