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.

This will bring up the Banish Administration Console.

Add a new Banish Rule

1. Type in a valid IP Address,CIDR, MAC Address or fully qualified domain name in the Banished Resource field.
2. Check the Enabled field.
   Optional:
   Type in a remark/comment about the Banished Resource in the Remark field.
3. Click the Add button.

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

Disabled

Edit Banish Rule

Click on the Edit icon under the Action column of the rule you wish to edit.

Banish Edit Mode

Remove Banish Rule

Click on the Remove icon under the Action column of the rule you wish to remove.

Sort Banish Rules

Sort by Banished Resource

Click on the Sort icon at the top of the Banished Resource column.

Sort by Remark

Click on the Sort icon at the top of the Remark column.

Sort by Enabled Rules

Click on the Sort icon at the top of the Action column.

Links

	Link to SID Solutions web site
Credits	Link to Banish Credits Page
	Link to this page
	Link to Banish Frequently Asked Questions page

Whois Lookup

Click on the Banished Resource on the Current Rules tab.

Uninstall

To uninstall Banish, execute the following command:

 /usr/local/bin/uninstall_Banish.sh

--Xtremebassist 15:09, 22 October 2005 (CDT)