IPFire Community Plugin Collection

Add-Ons
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I’d like to share a collection of community-maintained plugins that I have developed for IPFire. These plugins aim to simplify deployment and administration of several popular services that are not currently available in the official repository.

Available Plugins

ttyd-for-IPFire

A lightweight web terminal plugin that allows access to the IPFire shell directly from a web browser, eliminating the need for a separate SSH client.

Ideal for:

* Remote administration

* Troubleshooting

* Mobile device access

* Quick maintenance tasks

Lucky-for-IPFire

A lightweight internal service management plugin that integrates several commonly used features, including:

* Dynamic DNS (DDNS)

* Reverse proxy

* SSL/TLS certificate management

* NAT traversal and remote access

It provides a convenient all-in-one solution for home labs and small server environments.

Tailscale-for-IPFire

A zero-configuration networking plugin based on WireGuard that allows IPFire to join a Tailscale private network within minutes.

Features include:

* Secure remote access

* Site-to-site connectivity

* Private networking across locations

* No public IP required

* No complex port forwarding configuration

Sing-box-for-IPFire

Sing-box is a powerful and modern open-source network proxy platform supporting a wide range of popular proxy protocols.

Key features:

* High-performance architecture

* Low resource consumption

* Flexible configuration

* Traffic routing and policy control

* Load balancing

* Secure network access

Suitable for proxy services, traffic management, and advanced networking scenarios.

Mihomo-for-IPFire

Mihomo (formerly Clash Meta) is a high-performance and feature-rich open-source proxy core.

Key capabilities:

* Compatible with Clash configuration format

* Support for multiple proxy protocols

* Advanced rule-based traffic routing

* DNS management

* Load balancing

* Transparent proxy support

Thanks to its performance and broad protocol compatibility, Mihomo has become a popular solution for modern proxy and traffic management deployments.

ZeroTier-for-IPFire

A Software-Defined Networking (SDN) plugin that enables multiple devices and networks to join the same virtual LAN regardless of their physical location.

Use cases include:

* Remote office connectivity

* Cross-site device communication

* Lab environments

* Private virtual networks

Syncthing-for-IPFire

An open-source decentralized file synchronization plugin that automatically synchronizes files and directories between devices.

Features:

* End-to-end encryption

* Real-time synchronization

* No centralized server required

* Full data ownership and control

Ideal for configuration backups, data synchronization, and self-hosted cloud storage.

AdGuard Home-for-IPFire

A network-wide DNS filtering and privacy protection plugin that provides centralized ad blocking and DNS security for all devices on the local network.

Features include:

* Advertisement blocking

* Malicious domain filtering

* Privacy protection

* DNS query logging and statistics

* Secure DNS resolution

Provides network-wide protection without requiring configuration on individual devices.

Disclaimer

These plugins are independent community projects and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by the IPFire Project team.

Please review the source code carefully before deployment and evaluate the software according to your own requirements. Users are solely responsible for any risks, data loss, or operational issues that may arise from the use of these plugins.

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Hello Fang,

I am generally happy to see that you are interested in making IPFire better, but sadly I don’t think this is the way…

You are turning this all upside down. You are showing some users some software that you would like them use, but at the same time ask them to review your code? This is absolutely not what a distribution like IPFire is doing. Instead we have a bunch of skilled people who are putting all this time in to build, review and maintain software all year round so that the users won’t have to do it. That creates value.

Vibe-coding something is nothing that anyone should be using since IPFire is all about security. Nobody can afford to downgrade the integrity and therefore security of their systems with any third-party software that is no longer maintained from day one, installed without any trustworthy cryptographic signatures to ensure not installing malware at all times.

Looking at the repositories of your projects, this is clearly all generated by an LLM. A lot of code is written for no reason, implementations are redundant, complicated and broken. I suspect they have not even been reviewed by you personally.

So, I don’t think this is a real option for IPFire users to use. To look at and study? Yes, if you really want to. But please, nobody install this in production.

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Thank you, Michael, and thank you to all members of the IPFire team for your feedback.

I completely agree with your point of view. The reason IPFire has remained stable, secure, and trustworthy for so many years is precisely because of the team’s rigorous engineering practices, careful code reviews, and high standards for quality and security. I sincerely appreciate all the hard work that has gone into making IPFire such an excellent open-source and free firewall distribution.

Regarding the plugins I posted, I would like to clarify a few things:

  • These plugins were developed solely to satisfy my own personal needs and use cases.

  • I used AI tools to improve development efficiency, but that does not mean I believe AI-generated code can replace proper code review, testing, or security evaluation.

  • I have never expected these plugins to be integrated into the official IPFire distribution, nor have I intended to present them as officially recommended software.

  • My purpose in sharing them was simply to share some personal experiments and ideas with anyone who might find them interesting or useful for learning.

I fully agree that for security-critical infrastructure such as a firewall, software that has not been thoroughly audited and continuously maintained should not be considered production-ready. The same principle applies to any third-party software, regardless of whether it was developed with AI assistance or entirely by humans. Users should always evaluate the risks and suitability for their own environments.

I believe that most people interested in these experimental plugins understand their nature and would not regard them as officially reviewed, endorsed, or supported by the IPFire project.

If my original post gave the impression that these plugins were suitable for production environments or somehow had official approval from the IPFire project, then that was certainly not my intention. I will improve the descriptions and make their experimental nature and associated risks more explicit to avoid any misunderstanding within the community.

Finally, thank you again to the IPFire team for maintaining such high standards for security and code quality. It is precisely this commitment that has made IPFire a trusted platform. I will continue exploring these projects as personal experiments and learning exercises while fully respecting the community’s expectations regarding security and software quality.

As for the suggestion that the repositories are “clearly all generated by an LLM” and may not have been personally reviewed by me, I believe it is more constructive to evaluate software based on its actual implementation, behavior, and maintenance rather than solely on the method by which it was created. AI is ultimately a tool, much like a compiler, an IDE, or a code generator. It can certainly produce poor code, but it can also help developers rapidly prototype ideas and improve productivity. In the end, software quality is determined by the developer’s understanding, review, testing, and long-term maintenance—not simply by whether the initial code was written by a human alone or with AI assistance.