8signv2.2 available

claire · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:12 pm Post subject: 8signv2.2 available

Hello All,

Version 2.2 is released today.
It has been a long time in the making, and many of the improvements
have been by customer request. (that's an invitation to keep the feedback
coming!)

The complete feature set is listed here:

http://www.8signs.com/firewall/features.cfm

Major additions in v2.2 are:

Tarpits
8Signs Firewall allow you to trap hackers, slow down the spread of worms
and stall spammers by creating tarpits. A tarpit is a trap for troublesome
outsiders. Your system accepts TCP connections but never replies and
ignores disconnect requests. This can leave ports scanners and hackers
stuck for hours, even days.

Address, Port, and MAC Groups
Simplify your ruleset and tighten security by using the port, IP and MAC
address groups when creating rules in 8Signs Firewall. Using groups, you
can create one rule that can apply to multiple ports, IP addresses or MAC
addresses.

Command-Line addition of entries in the Ban List:
DFW.EXE -ban (address) [-expiry (d|w|n)] [-tarpit] [-reason "(text)"]

Command-Line removal of entries in the Ban List:
DFW.EXE -unban (address)

Detailed Log Display
The log display (when you double-click on a log entry) is improved to show the
protocol fields and the contents of the packet that triggered the log entry.
This display screen also gives you the option to save the packet information
you see to a file (in the Log directory, the file name is based on the
timestamp).

Trusted MAC addresses
MAC rules now support "trusted" status. TCP, UDP and ICMP rules can be
restricted to "trusted" MAC addresses, where all other MAC addresses do not
match the rule.

Thank you to all the beta testers.

James Grant
8Signs Ltd."


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