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Background Information

Released in 2006, Zeroshell was developed to deliver network services through a web interface. It gained popularity for its versatility, including capabilities for VPNs, load balancing, and captive portal access.

Zeroshell was avalable for x86/x86-64 platforms as well as ARM based devices such as the [[Topic:Raspberry Pi Desktop|Raspberry Pi]].

Zeroshell's end of life was announced on April 18, 2021 and security updates were delvered up to September 30,2021.

Technical Specifications

General Information

  • Developer: Fulvio Ricciardi

  • Licensing: GNU GPL

  • OS Family: Linux (Unix-like)

  • Initial Release Date: June 2006

  • Latest Release Date: January 16, 2021

Availability Information

  • Languages: Multilingual

  • Platforms: armhf, i386, x86_64

System Information

  • Working State: Discontinued

  • Source Model: Open Source

  • Update Method: Source-Based

  • Package manager: N/A

  • Default User Interface: WebUI

Features

  • RADIUS server which provides strong authentication for the Wireless clients through IEEE 802.1X and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA2) protocols

  • Captive Portal for network authentication in the HotSpots via the web browser. The credentials can be verified against a Radius server, a Kerberos 5 KDC (such as Active Directory KDC)

  • Netfilter – Firewall, Packet Filter and Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), Layer 7 filter to block or shape the connections generated by Peer to Peer clients

  • Linux network scheduler – control maximum bandwidth, the guaranteed bandwidth and the priority of some types of traffic such as VoIP and peer-to-peer

  • VPN host-to-LAN and LAN-to-LAN with the IPSec/L2TP and OpenVPN protocols

  • Routing and Bridging capabilities with VLAN IEEE 802.1Q support

  • Multizone DNS Server

  • Multi subnet DHCP server

  • PPPoE Client for connection to the WAN (Wide area network) via ADSL, DSL and cable lines

  • Dynamic DNS Client Updater for DynDNS

  • NTP (Network Time Protocol) client and server

  • Syslog Server for receiving and cataloging the system logs produced by the remote hosts

  • Kerberos 5 Authentication

  • LDAP Server

  • X.509 Certification Authority

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