This addon alows the administrator to generate a personal blocklst through menus on the IPFire GUI and to generate iptables rules to block by IP Address,CIDR, MAC Address or fully qualified domain name This is a port of Banish IPCop addon to IPFire. The Banish addon was written by Sid McLaurin who seems to have abandoned the code around 2008 and I can no longer find any trace of the original author.
I am currently running the ported version of Banish on IPFire 2.21 (i586) - Core Update 125 on a PC Engines ‐ apu2. The original version on Banish contained the ELF binary 'setBanish' which would not run on some recent hardware (I suspect it was compiled without support for multicore processors). As the source code for this program is no longer available. a work around is used in the IPFire port which has the advantage that it should run on all of IPFire's platforms although it has to date only been tested on PC Engines apu2 and an Alix 2D3.
From SID Solutions Wikipedia Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Features
2 Installing/Upgrading
3 Usage
3.1 Getting Started
3.2 Add a new Banish Rule
3.3 Enable/Disable Banish Rule
3.4 Edit Banish Rule
3.5 Remove Banish Rule
3.6 Sort Banish Rules
3.6.1 Sort by Banished Resource
3.6.2 Sort by Remark
3.6.3 Sort by Enabled Rules
3.7 Links
3.8 Whois Lookup
4 Uninstall
Introduction
Banish is a IPCop firewall Addon Module that allows you to simply and completely block IP addresses, ranges of IPs, MAC Address or Fully Qualified Domain Names at the IPTables firewall level. Features
"Who is" lookups for Banish entries.
Create meaningful Remarks about added Banish Rules.
Toggle Enabled/Disabled or Remove rules.
Sort by Banished Resources, Remarks or if rule is Enabled.
Compatible with other IPCop firewall MODs.
Added support for GeoIP IPCop Mod (GeoIP must be installed first).
MAC Address block capability
Installing/Upgrading
Download the latest version here and copy to your /tmp. See How to remotely transfer files to and from your IPCop system for more information.
If you are having trouble downloading, click here.
Logon as root on your IPCop system. See How to logon remotely to your IPCop system
Extract installation files:
tar xzvf current-banish.tar.gz
Or
tar xzvf banish*tar.gz
Change to installation directory
cd banish*
Execute installation script
./install_Banish.sh
Or
sh install_Banish.sh
Usage Getting Started
Select Banish from the Firewall menu of IPCop's Web Interface.
Image:Banish menu.png
This will bring up the Banish Administration Console.
Image:Banish console.png Add a new Banish Rule
Type in a valid IP Address,CIDR, MAC Address or fully qualified domain name in the Banished Resource field.
Check the Enabled field.
Optional:
Type in a remark/comment about the Banished Resource in the Remark field.
Click the Add button.
Image:Banish addition.png Enable/Disable Banish Rule
You can toggle a Banish Rule between Enable and Disabled states by clicking on the Enable/Disable checkbox under the Action column.
Enabled
Image:Banish enabled.png
Disabled
Image:Banish disabled.png
Edit Banish Rule
Click on the Edit icon Image:Edit.gif under the Action column of the rule you wish to edit.
Banish Edit Mode
Image:Banish edit.png
Remove Banish Rule
Click on the Remove icon Image:Delete.gif under the Action column of the rule you wish to remove.