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<h1 align="center"><small><font color="#ffffff">Some things that
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Shorewall <b>Cannot</b> Do</font></small></h1>
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</small>Shorewall cannot:<br>
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<li>Be used to filter traffic through a Layer 2 Bridge</li>
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<li>Act as a "Personal Firewall" that allows internet access by
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application.</li>
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<li>Be used with an Operating System other than Linux (version >=
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2.4.0)<br>
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<li>Do content filtering -- better to use <a
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href="Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html">Squid</a> for that.</li>
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In addition:<br>
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<li>Shorewall does not contain any support for Netfilter <span
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style="font-style: italic;">Patch-O-Matic</span> features -- Shorewall
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only supports features from released kernels.<br>
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<font size="2">Last updated 9/28/2003 - <a href="support.htm">Tom
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Eastep</a></font>
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<p><a href="copyright.htm"><font size="2">Copyright</font> © <font
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size="2">2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a><br>
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