ICFRanger
Windows XP provides a basic firewall called ICF which has a very simple interface. In particular you cannot add
port ranges, even after the SP2 patch. (i.e. You cannot add multiple ports at once.) ICFRanger's purpose is to fix that.
ICFRanger also allows people who use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to map ranges of ports to other machines on their
local networks.
The GUI is similar to the ICS/ICF settings GUI except that you specify a start and end ports. Here's an example input and output:
Download
ICFRanger_1001.zip (135k) (PGP sig)
C++ source code is included in the archive.
Limitations
- USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
- Requires Windows XP (duh!).
- Try adding only one or two ports first to make sure you've got things set correctly.
RCFRanger does not currently provide a way to delete the ports it adds so if you add a thousand
ports and have to delete them then good luck doing that with ICF's awful GUI. You have been warned!
- Has a small memory leak because Microsoft forgot to provide an export library for NetShell.dll and
I can't be bothered doing dynamic linking. The memory should be recovered when the program exits
and will be a very, very tiny amount. Don't you just love working with new Microsoft APIs? :-)
- Doesn't understand IPv6 addresses. They may work anyway, assumng ICF understands them, but I'm not sure.
History
1.0.0.1 (8th February 2004)
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