Welcome to SuSE Proxy-Suite
This is the Home of SuSE Proxy-Suite, a set of programs to enhance firewall security.
The first (and currently only) component being released is the FTP-Proxy.

FTP-Proxy
  • Securely relays FTP connections between clients and servers
  • Can switch connections from active to passive and vice versa
  • Utilizes port ranges for both control and data connections
  • Provides extensive auditing (via syslog or rotating log files)
  • Can separate user related from system triggered audit events
  • Provides command restriction based on logged in user name
  • Allows command argument checking with regular expressions
  • Is able to retrieve configuration data from an LDAP directory
  • Has been thoroughly tested against buffer overflow attacks
  • Fully conforms to RFC 959 and 1123 (the basic FTP RFCs)
  • Planned to support RFC 1579 ("Firewall Friendly FTP")
  • Planned to support RFC 2428 (IPv6 Extensions for FTP)
  • Based on GNU AutoConf, supposed to run on many UNIX systems

Documentation
SuSE Proxy-Suite comes with a fairly comprehensive documentation. We have created UNIX style Man-Pages and some background information in the form of White Papers.

Current Status
This software is Open Source and released under the GPL (GNU General Public License). The entire Proxy-Suite has been written from scratch by Volker Wiegand, with active help from Jens-Gero Boehm, Marius Tomaschewski and Pieter Hollants.

The FTP-Proxy is already in a usable state. The only features that are announced but not implemented (yet) are the RFC 1579 and 2428 extensions.

Everyone is invited to download, test and use this software for free. We believe that it is in a fairly complete and usable shape. Of course we are also very much interested in discussing enhancements and other components to include in the Proxy-Suite.

Download
The latest version of the software can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/proxy-suite/.

More Information
We have created a mailing list to discuss Proxy-Suite. To subscribe send an empty mail (the body is ignored) to proxy-suite-subscribe@suse.com.

A second mailing list has been installed where important announcements are made. To subscribe to this second list send a mail to proxy-suite-announce-subscribe@suse.com.

If you find any bugs in the software or documentation, or would like to suggest enhancements, feel free to send an email to proxy-suite-bugs@suse.com.

Last but not least you are invited to contact the author, Volker Wiegand.