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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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<article>
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<articleinfo>
<title>Shorewall Internals</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2012</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This document provides an overview of Shorewall internals. It is
intended to ease the task of approaching the Shorewall code base by
providing a roadmap of what you will find there.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Overall Architecture</title>
<para>Shorewall was originally written entirely in Bourne Shell. The chief
advantage of this approach was that virtually any platform supports the
shell, including small embedded environments. The </para>
</section>
</article>