Douane

Douane: Open-Source Firewall

An intuitive firewall solution for home & small business networks, offering easy configuration and advanced features to protect against incoming and outgoing connection filtering.

What is Douane?

Douane is an open-source firewall software that aims to balance ease of use with advanced functionality. It provides a graphical user interface that allows users to easily set up firewall rules, port forwarding, and other common configurations without needing extensive technical knowledge.

Some key features of Douane include:

• Intuitive drag-and-drop interface for creating inbound and outbound firewall rules
• Predefined common rules sets for homes, small businesses, servers etc.
• Network address translation (NAT) and port forwarding support
• Traffic monitoring and logging tools
• Scheduled rules activation/deactivation
• Plugin architecture for extending functionality
• Lightweight resource usage suitable for old computers or single-board devices like Raspberry Pi

Douane is designed to protect home and small business networks by filtering incoming and outgoing connections. Its graphical interface allows setting up a hardened firewall without deep networking expertise. Advanced users can leverage Douane's scripting and plugin capabilities as well. It runs on Linux platforms and is licensed under the GPL v3 open source license.

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