How to Install IPFire 2.19 Firewall and Review on VMware Tutorial

IPFire 2.19 Firewall Installation and Review on VMware

Easy tutorial on how to install IPFire 2.19 on VMware Workstation or VMware Player step by step. We'll also install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) on IPFire 2.19 for better performance and usability. This tutorial is also helpful for installing IPFire 2.19 on physical computer or bare-metal server.

IPFire 2.19 Installation Steps

1. Download IPFire 2.19 ISO
2. Create VM on VMware Workstation/Player
3. Start Installation
4. Install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) in IPFire
5. IPFire 2.19 Review

Installing IPFire 2.19 and Review on VMware

What is IPFire Linux Firewall?

IPFire is a Linux distribution that focusses on easy setup, good handling and high level of security. It is operated via an intuitive web-based interface which offers many configuration options for beginning and experienced system administrators. IPFire is maintained by developers who are concerned about security and who update the product regularly to keep it secure. IPFire ships with a custom package manager called Pakfire and the system can be expanded with various add-ons.
IPFire Website: http://www.ipfire.org/

IPFire 2.19 New Features and Improvements

IPFire 2.19 contains various stability fixes and updates a number a packages. The web proxy squid has been updated to the 3.5 series and various improvements for stability and performance were made. On machines with slow hard disks or on installations with very large caches it was likely to happen that the cache index got corrupted when the proxy was shut down. This resulted in an unstable web proxy after the next start. The shutdown routine was improved so that a cache index corruption is now very unlikely. Additionally we have means installed that allow us to detect if the cache index was corrupted and if so have it automatically rebuilt at the next start.

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