# tnodir/fort

Fort Firewall for Windows

Repository: https://github.com/tnodir/fort
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fort
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: firewall, windows, bandwidth-limiting
Last push: 2026-08-25T13:41:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 39, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4264, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 326, "gap_med": 3.0, "n_releases_24m": 71}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3529, forks 241 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:08.105833+00:00)

## What it is
Fort Firewall is a standalone firewall application for Windows 7+ with its own kernel driver. It provides per-application network rules, bandwidth speed limiting, blocklist zones, and traffic statistics with a graphical bandwidth display.

## Use cases
- control which apps can access the network on windows
- limit bandwidth usage of specific applications
- block connections by ip address or port per program
- set up blocklists to stop traffic to known bad hosts
- monitor per-application network traffic statistics
- replace windows firewall with more granular rules

## When to choose
- you need per-application firewall rules with wildcards and parent-process matching on windows
- you want bandwidth throttling and traffic graphs in one tool
- you need a standalone firewall with its own driver rather than wrapping Windows Filtering Platform UIs

## When to avoid
- you need a firewall for linux or macos
- you cannot disable HVCI/Memory Integrity on Windows 10+
- you want a zero-configuration firewall without rule management

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: security, networking, monitoring
- domain: security, networking, windows, privacy
- platform: windows
- tags: firewall, bandwidth-limiting, traffic-statistics, windows-driver, blocklists

## Member repositories
- tnodir/fort (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:08.105833+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:35:08.343885+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tnodir/fort (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:08.105833+00:00, sha c6a2d5cafca0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.