IPFire

IPFire è una distribuzione Linux orientata al networking, che offre, modularmente:

• Firewall
• Web Proxy
• VPN Gateway
• Intrusion detection
• Quality of Service
• Virtualizzazione
• Wireless access point

Il tutto pensato per essere semplice da configurare ed è costantemente aggiornato.

Versione 2.25 Core 160

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

This is the release announcement for IPFire 2.27 – Core Update 160. It comes with a large number of bug fixes and package updates and prepares for removing Python 2 which has reached its end of life.

Before we talk about what is new, I would like to ask you for your support. IPFire is a small team of people and like many of our open source friends, we’ve taken a hit this year and would like to ask you to help us out. Please follow the link below where your donation can help fund our continued development: https://www.ipfire.org/donate.

Improving Network Throughput

In recent days and months, the development team has spent a lot of time on finding bottlenecks and removing those. Our goal is to increase throughput on hardware and bringing latency down, for a faster network.

This update brings a first change which will enable network interfaces that support it, to send packets that belong to the same stream to the same processor core. This allows taking advantage of better cache locality and the firewall engine as well as the Intrusion Prevention System benefit from this, especially with a large number of connections and especially on hardware with smaller CPU caches.

This feature is automatically enabled on all hardware that supports it.

Removing Python 2

Python 2 has reached its end-of-life (EOL) at January 1st, 2021. In the past months and years, we have moved our own code to Python 3 which has been completed with this update.

However, Python 2 is still present in the distribution for all users who still have to port any custom scripts. With the next Core Update, we will remove Python 2 which means that you have to act now to port any custom scripts written in Python 2.

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• 64 bit (406 MB): https://downloads.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-2.x/2.27-core160/ipfire-2.27.x86_64-full-core160.iso

Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://www.ipfire.org/

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