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				<h3>more security for your network</h3>

				<p style="border: 1px solid #f60; background: #fee; padding: 5px;">
					<b>Dear users!</b><br /><br />
					At the moment, there are a lot updates to do for our serverfarm.
					Though, some services could be down. We are looking forward
					to bring everything back online as fast as possible.
				</p>

				<p>
					<strong>IPFire</strong> is a source-based linux firewall distribution
					that brings additional features with it. The easy-to-set-up system defeats
					its competitiors like IPCop, Smoothwall and Endian-Firewall potty.
					A <strong>stateful-inspection-firewall</strong> with a luxuriant
					<strong>content-filtering</strong>-engine plus
					<strong>traffic-control (QoS)</strong> rounded with latest
					<strong>vpn-technology</strong> and a lot of logging is
					foolproof to administer with just a very few clicks.
				</p>

				<img src="/images/Network-1.png" alt="IPFire Logo" />
				<br class="clear" />

				<p>
					"Modular system" is the principle of IPFire.<br />
					There is a big number of addons. See the short list below:
				</p>

				<ul class="links">
					<li class="first">- Intrusion-Prevention-System Snort(Guardian) and more security tools Tripwire and Lynis</li>
					<li>- File- and printserver for heterogeneous networks (Samba, CUPS, FTP &amp; NFS)</li>
					<li>- Voice-over-IP solution with Asterisk and Teamspeak plus traffic prioritization</li>
					<li>- Multimedia addons (video- &amp; audio-streaming, jukebox)</li>
					<li>- WLan Access Point with hostap and many Atheros Chips</li>
					<li>- and many more - <a href="http://wiki.ipfire.org/Addons" target="_blank">List of all Addons</a></li>	
				</ul>

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				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-12"></a>
					<h3>2008/11/08 - IPFire 2.3 Final</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Get it quick</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the final version of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						<br />
						Major changes since the first version 2.1 in November 2007
						<br />
						<li class="first">DNS-Securityupdate and many more packet updates</li>
						<li>Enhancement of the packet manager</li>
						<li>Improvement of the Quality-of-Service rules - Presets for QoS</li>
						<li>Adjustable Firewall Logging</li>
						<li>Kernel-Modules for better hardware suport</li>
						<li>Change the system statistic to „collectd"</li>
						<li>Better disk handling (S.M.A.R.T. and Standby)</li>
						<li>Status- and Serviceview in the Webinterface</li>
						<li>Proxy and Redirector now work more dynamic</li>
						<br />
						<br />
						In addition the 2.3 will change the following things
						<br />
						<li class="first">Kernel update to Linux-2.6.25.19</li>
						<li>Update of many more packets (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, Squid, Snort, collectd, ntfs-3g, Openswan, Updatexlrator, iptables, l7protocols)</li>
						<li>With severall Atheros Chips IPFire is able to work as Wireless Access Point</li>
						<li>Better support of UMTS-3G-Modems</li>
						<li>Use of tmpfs to reduce disk reads and writes</li>
						<li>Better hardware monitoring by the use of lmsensors</li>
						<li>Vnstat Traffic-Accounting replaces ipac-ng</li>
						<br />
						<br />
						The IPFire Team
					</p>

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					<h3>2008/10/26 - IPFire 2.3 RC 1</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Check it out</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the first Release Candidate of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
						<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,812.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
						<br />
						<br />
						The IPFire Team
					</p>

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					<h3>2008/10/13 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 5</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Check it out</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the fifth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
						<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,788.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
						<br />
						We finally had to do bigger changes and though: This is beta #5!
						<br />
						<br />
						The IPFire Team
					</p>

				</div>

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					<a name="news-09"></a>
					<h3>2008/10/11 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 4</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Check it out</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the fourth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
						<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,783.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
						<br />
						We hope that many of you will install this new version and give some feedback, so we're able to have
						a well tested version and go quickly forward to the Release Candidates.
						<br />
						<br />
						Maniac for the team of IPFire
					</p>

				</div>

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					<h3>2008/08/25 - One year passed - IPFire 2.1</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">"The best is yet to come."</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						It is almost a year ago, we´ve finalized the 2.1 and started the BETA process for
						the final release. After two hard months 2.1 was released in november 2007. Here are
						some very interisting numbers to show the growing interest for IPFire and its ongoing
						developement.
						<br />
						Stats can be found here
						<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats1.png" target="_blank">Stats 1</a>
						<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats2.png" target="_blank">Stats 2</a>
						<br />
						<br />
						We want to thank all of you and hope IPFire will spread more and more
						<br />
						<br />
						Maniacikarus for the IPFire-Team
					</p>

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				<h4><span>About</span> us</h4>
				<p><strong>IPFire</strong> is developed by a group
					of free programmers. They set it as their target
					to create a secure and easy-going on ressources
					firewall and a wide-ranging soho-server
					in one piece.
				</p>

				<h4><span>RSS</span> feed</h4>
				<p>
					<a class="feed" href="http://www.ipfire.org/data/feeds/main-en.rss">IPFire - News</a>
					<br />
					<a href="news.shtml">news archive</a>
				</p>

				<h4><span>Internet Relay</span> Chat</h4>
				<p>
					<b>Server:</b> irc.freenode.net<br />
					<b>Channel:</b> #ipfire<br />
					<a href="http://embed.mibbit.com/?settings=7ca12664887d4b6e7a0fa6552f9e0de6&amp;server=irc.freenode.net&amp;channel=%23ipfire&noServerNotices=true&forcePrompt=true&charset=ISO-8859-2" target="_blank">Web-Chat</a>
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	13	<p style="border: 1px solid #f60; background: #fee; padding: 5px;">
	14	<b>Dear users!</b><br /><br />
	15	At the moment, there are a lot updates to do for our serverfarm.
	16	Though, some services could be down. We are looking forward
	17	to bring everything back online as fast as possible.
	18	</p>
	19
0580369c	20	<p>
7135de60	21	<strong>IPFire</strong> is a source-based linux firewall distribution
	22	that brings additional features with it. The easy-to-set-up system defeats
	23	its competitiors like IPCop, Smoothwall and Endian-Firewall potty.
	24	A <strong>stateful-inspection-firewall</strong> with a luxuriant
	25	<strong>content-filtering</strong>-engine plus
	26	<strong>traffic-control (QoS)</strong> rounded with latest
	27	<strong>vpn-technology</strong> and a lot of logging is
	28	foolproof to administer with just a very few clicks.
01885878	29	</p>
7135de60	30
	31	<img src="/images/Network-1.png" alt="IPFire Logo" />
	32	<br class="clear" />
	33
0580369c	34	<p>
7135de60	35	"Modular system" is the principle of IPFire.<br />
7135de60	36	There is a big number of addons. See the short list below:
01885878	37	</p>
7e5fe9c4	38
7135de60	39	<ul class="links">
876c9ada	40	<li class="first">- Intrusion-Prevention-System Snort(Guardian) and more security tools Tripwire and Lynis</li>
7135de60	41	<li>- File- and printserver for heterogeneous networks (Samba, CUPS, FTP & NFS)</li>
7135de60	42	<li>- Voice-over-IP solution with Asterisk and Teamspeak plus traffic prioritization</li>
876c9ada M	43	<li>- Multimedia addons (video- & audio-streaming, jukebox)</li>
876c9ada M	44	<li>- WLan Access Point with hostap and many Atheros Chips</li>
7135de60	45	<li>- and many more - <a href="http://wiki.ipfire.org/Addons" target="_blank">List of all Addons</a></li>
	46	</ul>
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876c9ada M	50	<div class="post">
	51	<a name="news-12"></a>
	52	<h3>2008/11/08 - IPFire 2.3 Final</h3>
	53	<ul class="post_info">
	54	<li class="date">Get it quick</li>
	55	</ul>
	56
	57	<p>
	58	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	59	This day, we released the final version of IPFire 2.3.
	60	<br />
	61	<br />
af9c3e56	62	Major changes since the first version 2.1 in November 2007
876c9ada	63	<br />
af9c3e56 M	64	<li class="first">DNS-Securityupdate and many more packet updates</li>
	65	<li>Enhancement of the packet manager</li>
	66	<li>Improvement of the Quality-of-Service rules - Presets for QoS</li>
	67	<li>Adjustable Firewall Logging</li>
	68	<li>Kernel-Modules for better hardware suport</li>
	69	<li>Change the system statistic to „collectd"</li>
	70	<li>Better disk handling (S.M.A.R.T. and Standby)</li>
	71	<li>Status- and Serviceview in the Webinterface</li>
	72	<li>Proxy and Redirector now work more dynamic</li>
876c9ada M	73	<br />
	74	<br />
	75	In addition the 2.3 will change the following things
	76	<br />
af9c3e56	77	<li class="first">Kernel update to Linux-2.6.25.19</li>
876c9ada	78	<li>Update of many more packets (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, Squid, Snort, collectd, ntfs-3g, Openswan, Updatexlrator, iptables, l7protocols)</li>
af9c3e56 M	79	<li>With severall Atheros Chips IPFire is able to work as Wireless Access Point</li>
	80	<li>Better support of UMTS-3G-Modems</li>
	81	<li>Use of tmpfs to reduce disk reads and writes</li>
	82	<li>Better hardware monitoring by the use of lmsensors</li>
	83	<li>Vnstat Traffic-Accounting replaces ipac-ng</li>
876c9ada M	84	<br />
	85	<br />
	86	The IPFire Team
	87	</p>
	88
	89	</div>
	90
	91	<br class="clear" />
	92
27be1442 M	93	<div class="post">
	94	<a name="news-11"></a>
	95	<h3>2008/10/26 - IPFire 2.3 RC 1</h3>
	96	<ul class="post_info">
	97	<li class="date">Check it out</li>
	98	</ul>
	99
	100	<p>
	101	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	102	This day, we released the first Release Candidate of IPFire 2.3.
	103	<br />
	104	Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
	105	<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,812.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
	106	<br />
	107	<br />
	108	The IPFire Team
	109	</p>
	110
	111	</div>
	112
	113	<br class="clear" />
	114
e1f5c9a9 MT	115	<div class="post">
	116	<a name="news-10"></a>
	117	<h3>2008/10/13 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 5</h3>
	118	<ul class="post_info">
	119	<li class="date">Check it out</li>
	120	</ul>
	121
	122	<p>
	123	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	124	This day, we released the fifth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
	125	<br />
	126	Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
	127	<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,788.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
	128	<br />
	129	We finally had to do bigger changes and though: This is beta #5!
	130	<br />
	131	<br />
	132	The IPFire Team
	133	</p>
	134
	135	</div>
	136
	137	<br class="clear" />
	138
26d04920 MT	139	<div class="post">
	140	<a name="news-09"></a>
	141	<h3>2008/10/11 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 4</h3>
	142	<ul class="post_info">
	143	<li class="date">Check it out</li>
	144	</ul>
	145
	146	<p>
	147	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	148	This day, we released the fourth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
	149	<br />
	150	Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
	151	<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,783.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
	152	<br />
e1f5c9a9	153	We hope that many of you will install this new version and give some feedback, so we're able to have
26d04920 MT	154	a well tested version and go quickly forward to the Release Candidates.
	155	<br />
	156	<br />
	157	Maniac for the team of IPFire
	158	</p>
	159
	160	</div>
	161
	162	<br class="clear" />
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9867f054 MT	164	<div class="post">
	165	<a name="news-08"></a>
	166	<h3>2008/08/25 - One year passed - IPFire 2.1</h3>
	167	<ul class="post_info">
	168	<li class="date">"The best is yet to come."</li>
	169	</ul>
	170
	171	<p>
165d0566	172	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
9867f054 MT	173	It is almost a year ago, we´ve finalized the 2.1 and started the BETA process for
	174	the final release. After two hard months 2.1 was released in november 2007. Here are
	175	some very interisting numbers to show the growing interest for IPFire and its ongoing
	176	developement.
	177	<br />
	178	Stats can be found here
	179	<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats1.png" target="_blank">Stats 1</a>
	180	<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats2.png" target="_blank">Stats 2</a>
	181	<br />
	182	<br />
	183	We want to thank all of you and hope IPFire will spread more and more
	184	<br />
	185	<br />
	186	Maniacikarus for the IPFire-Team
	187	</p>
	188
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7135de60	211	<h4><span>About</span> us</h4>
	212	<p><strong>IPFire</strong> is developed by a group
	213	of free programmers. They set it as their target
	214	to create a secure and easy-going on ressources
	215	firewall and a wide-ranging soho-server
	216	in one piece.
	217	</p>
7e754aee	218
c8c8c651 MT	219	<h4><span>RSS</span> feed</h4>
	220	<p>
	221	<a class="feed" href="http://www.ipfire.org/data/feeds/main-en.rss">IPFire - News</a>
b41cfec5 MT	222	<br />
b41cfec5 MT	223	<a href="news.shtml">news archive</a>
c8c8c651 MT	224	</p>
c8c8c651 MT	225
3c1867e6	226	<h4><span>Internet Relay</span> Chat</h4>
	227	<p>
	228	<b>Server:</b> irc.freenode.net<br />
2ab843d6	229	<b>Channel:</b> #ipfire<br />
2c59b8a3	230	<a href="http://embed.mibbit.com/?settings=7ca12664887d4b6e7a0fa6552f9e0de6&server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%23ipfire&noServerNotices=true&forcePrompt=true&charset=ISO-8859-2" target="_blank">Web-Chat</a>
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