Project Overview

A modular firewall simulator developed in Python to manage and monitor network traffic. The project evolved over a number of phases that progressively added functionality for filtering, dynamic rule management and traffic analysis. The final program simulates a real world firewall system that can be practically used in a personal environment to allow or block an IP based on the user defined whitelist and blacklist.

Features

Stage 1: Introductory Framework

• IP Address Filtering: Allow or blocklist based filtering of traffic.
• Rule Initialization: Includes hardcoded list of blocked IPs that serve as the rule set.
• Static Configuration: Rules cannot be dynamically updated; basic proof of concept implementation.
• Function: Serves as a starting point that establishes the basic logic that is expanded upon in subsequent stages.

Stage 2: Interactive Rule Management

• Dynamic Rule Updates:
• Improved functionality:
• Interactive Interface:
• Function:

Stage 3: Advanced Monitoring and Analytics

• Traffic Logging:
• Audit Trails:
• Analysis Tools:
• Function:

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