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Many features of the Gibraltar firewall depend on starting a specific service. Most of these features are additional services that are not essential for the basic functionality of the Gibraltar firewall. Therefore they are deactivated by default. If you need one of these additional features, start the specific service here.

Each of these services can be started, stopped, or restarted.

 

The following actions concerning services are available:

Start a service
Stop a service
Automatically start a service at boot time

 

Description of the services:

 

Anon Anonymizer: Anon-Proxy: Activates the HTTP anonymization solution Anon-Proxy
Block Login Attempts: Activates the check for unauthorized login attempts
Captive Portal: This feature is a hot-spot service that allows managing Internet connectivity by defining separate users. The duration of connection and the download volume can also be regulated.
DHCP relay: Activates the forwarding of DHCP requests across the firewall.
DHCP server: Activates the DHCP server of the firewall.
Dynamic DNS: Use this feature if you do not have a static IP and if you want connect to the firewall anyway.
Freenet: Activates the integrated anonymization software freenet.
FTP proxy (incoming): FTP proxy for connections to an internal FTP server
FTP proxy (outgoing): FTP proxy for connections to an external FTP server
High availability: High availability service heartbeat to configure a second hardware in hot-standby
HTTP proxy: Optionally transparent HTTP proxy
IDS: Intrusion Detection System Snort
IPSec: Service to manage IPSec/VPN tunnels
Kaspersky anti virus: Checks HTTP, FTP and SMTP traffic with the Kaspersky AntiVirus software
L2TP: Service to manage L2TP/IPSec VPN conncetions
LDAP server: Integrated LDAP directory server to manage users for different services.
Mail server: Activates the integrated mail relay that forwards incoming SMTP traffic to an internal mail server and optionally checks for spam or viruses
Monitoring: Activates the service monitoring.
OpenVPN: Activates the service OpenVPN to connect external workers via VPN with your office.
POP3 proxy: Activates the POP3 proxy service.
PPTP server: Activates the PPTP VPN solution to connect external workers via PPTP.
PureSight Content Scanner: Activates the content checks of HTTP traffic using PureSight´s CSDK.
SMTP Content Scanner: Service that checks SMTP traffic passed through the firewall by the mail relay for viruses and spam.
SSL Tunnel: Service to create SSL tunnels terminating at the firewall.
SSL-VPN: Activates the SSL VPN service.
Tor Anonymizer: Starts the anonymization service Tor.

 

ATTENTION: In certain cases, starting a service can fail and an error message will be displayed. For example you can not start the DHCP server if you have not activated any interface for DHCP.

 

ATTENTION: To check your mails for viruses and spam you must start the SMTP Content Scanner in the module Services.

 

 

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