Endian Firewall Community 2.3 Release

Setelah pada bulan Juni 2009 lalu Endian Firewall Community me-release Final Version 2.2, Endian Firewall Community kembali me-release versi 2.3 pada tanggal 27 Oktober 2009. Beberapa perbaikan dan penambahan feature melengkapi versi 2.3 ini. Seperti feature tambahan Quality of Service yang menggantikan feature Traffick Shaping yang fungsinya untuk memprioritaskan trafick-trafick service yang penting (ssh, VoIP). Berikut Highlight feature EFW Community 2.3 :

• Backups
  Backups can now be stored to and recovered from attached USB mass storage devices. It is also possible to schedule automatic backups and to send encrypted backups via email.
• Dashboard
  The main page has been replaced by a dashboard with statistics about the
  system and its services as well as live-graphs for incoming and outgoing traffic.
• Email notifications
  Emails can be sent automatically for predefined events.
• HTTP proxy time based access control
  With the new interface it is possible to add time based access control
  lists for the HTTP proxy.
• HTTP proxy with user- and group-based content filtering
  The HTTP proxy now has a new and polished web interface that adds the possibility to create group based content filters.
• Intrusion Prevention
  Snort rules can now be configured. It is possible to drop packets as
  well as to log intrusion attempts.
• Policy routing
  Routing rules can be created based on the interface, MAC address,
  protocol or port of a packet.
• Port forwarding rewrite
  In version 2.3 it is possible to add port-forwards from any zone (only
  from the RED zone previously). Port forwarding without NAT is now also
  supported.
• Quality of Service and Bandwidth Management
  Traffic Shaping has been replaced by a fully configurable Quality of
  Service module. QoS devices, classes and rules can be defined.
• SNMP support
  Basic SNMP support has been added.
• SMTP proxy web interface rewrite
  The web interface of the SMTP proxy has been rewritten with focus on
  usability.
• VLAN support (IEEE 802.1Q trunking)
  It is now possible to create VLANs on every interface. The VLAN
  interfaces can be used to distinguish connections in the same zone.