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<title>Shorewall Features</title>
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<h1 align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">Shorewall Features</font></h1>
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<ul>
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<li>Uses Netfilter's connection tracking facilities for stateful packet
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filtering.</li>
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<li>Can be used in a <b> wide range of router/firewall/gateway applications</b>.
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<li>Completely customizable using configuration files.</li>
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<li>No limit on the number of network interfaces.</li>
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<li>Allows you to partitions the network into <i><a href="Documentation.htm#Zones">zones</a></i>
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and gives you complete control over the connections permitted between
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each pair of zones.</li>
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<li>Multiple interfaces per zone and multiple zones per interface
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permitted.</li>
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<li>Supports nested and overlapping zones.</li>
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</li>
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<li> <a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guides</a> to help
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get your first firewall up and running quickly</li>
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<li>Extensive <b> <a href="Documentation_Index.htm" target="_top">documentation</a> </b>
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included in the .tgz and .rpm downloads.</li>
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<li><b>Flexible address management/routing support</b> (and you can use all
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types in the same firewall):
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<ul>
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<li><a href="Documentation.htm#Masq">Masquerading/SNAT</a></li>
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<li><a href="Documentation.htm#PortForward">Port Forwarding (DNAT)</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="Documentation.htm#NAT">
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Static NAT</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="Documentation.htm#ProxyArp">
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Proxy ARP</a>.</li>
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<li>Simple host/subnet Routing</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="blacklisting_support.htm"><b>Blacklisting</b></a> of individual
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IP addresses and subnetworks is supported.</li>
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<li><b><a href="starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">Operational support</a></b>:
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<li>Commands to start, stop and clear the firewall</li>
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<li>Supports status monitoring
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with an audible alarm when an "interesting" packet is detected.</li>
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<li>Wide variety of informational commands.</li>
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</li>
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<li><b>VPN Support</b>
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<li><a href="Documentation.htm#Tunnels">IPSEC, GRE and IPIP
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Tunnels</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="PPTP.htm">PPTP </a> clients and Servers.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Support for <a href="traffic_shaping.htm"><b>Traffic Control/Shaping</b></a>
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integration.</li>
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<li>Wide support for different <b>GNU/Linux Distributions</b>.
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<ul>
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<li><a href="Install.htm#Install_RPM"><b>RPM</b></a> and <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html"><b>Debian</b></a>
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packages available.</li>
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<li>Includes <a href="Install.htm"><b>automated install, upgrade, fallback
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and uninstall facilities</b></a> for users who can't use or choose not
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to use the RPM or Debian packages.</li>
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<li>Compatible with 2.4-kernel based versions of <b> <a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net">
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LEAF</a>
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</b>
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.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><font size="2">Last updated 7/14/2002 - <a href="support.htm">Tom
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Eastep</a></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><a href="copyright.htm">
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<font size="2">Copyright</font> <20> <font size="2">2001,2002 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a></font></p>
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