Douane is a firewall that filter and limit the outgoing network traffic per application.
You can allow network traffic for some applications and deny network traffic for others.
When Douane is started, it will watch the ougoing network traffic and as soon as an unknown application tries to send some network packets, Douane will block it and ask you if you allow it or not:
The application is composed of multiple parts written in different programming languages.
This project is divided in multiple peaces in order to get it very flexible. In the following sections, the Git repository of the described part is available in the last line.
If you want to get more information about the Douane architecture, you can have a look to the Architecture Wiki page.
The Linux Kernel Module is the heart of Douane as it will catch outgoing network packets and find owning application.
Written in C, it use Netfilter to watch the network traffic.
The Github repository URL is https://github.com/Douane/douane-dkms.
This is the brain of Douane as it will ask you and remind your decisions to allow/deny network traffic.
Written in C++, it provide a D-Bus server in order to communicate with the other parts.
The Github repository URL is https://github.com/Douane/douane-daemon.
The dialog process is the window which is appearing when an unknown activity has been detected. It is written in GTK 3 for the official project.
The Github repository URL of the Douane version is https://github.com/Douane/douane-dialog. (The dialog process could be written in any languages, for any UI, until it follows the D-Bus implementation).
Finally the configurator allow you to edit the configuration (rules, load on boot, ...).
The configuration is written in python 3 and GTK 3 using PyGObject, is open source and is an interface to the D-Bus server provided by the daemon process.
The Github repository URL is https://github.com/Douane/douane-configurator. (The configurator process could be written in any languages, for any UI, until it follows the D-Bus implementation).
If you found a bug or have an idea to improve Douane your input is more than welcome!
Fill in a new Github issue in this project and I will have a look at it.
For the first release the application I didn't implemented so much features in order to keep it simple as possible in order to focus more on the stability of the application.
Now that the application is quite stable (let's see for bug report) I can implement new features so do not hesitate to ask!!
The entire project is 100% open source under the GPL v2 licence.
You can find the compilation/installation instruction in the wiki.