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for the questions about organisational size and the number of users
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serviced by Shorewall match fairly closely, which seems to indicate that
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the majority of Shorewall systems are servicing the entire organisation
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in question. Some anomalies seem to have crept in, e.g. some responses
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indicated that their Shorewall system serviced more users than exist in
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their organisation. There may be some good reasons for this that i
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haven't anticipated.</para>
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in question.</para>
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<para>The vast majority (84%) of Shorewall systems are administered by
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only one person. One question that needs to be asked is, "Why?" Possible
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discipline (42%). This remains fairly constant across the spectrum when
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correlated with the highest level of qualifications.</para>
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<para>Those users who do not claim IT as their highest discipline hold a
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wide variety of other qualifications, including agriculture, art,
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business, chemistry, education, various forms of engineering, law,
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mathematics, physics and theology.</para>
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<para>Almost two-thirds of users (62%) use Shorewall as part of their
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paid employment. Of these, 12% (7 of 58) do not use Shorewall as part of
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their official duties. Cross correlation with level of education
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<section>
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<title>Network</title>
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<para></para>
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<para>The majority of Shorewall systems (82%) use between two and four
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network interfaces. The number of devices connected to systems closely
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mirrors the size of the organisations in which they are used, with 95%
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of systems connecting less than 500 devices, and the largest group (41%)
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connecting 2-10 other devices.</para>
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<para>Ninety percent (90%) of Shorewall systems are connected to 100
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Mbps or faster local networks. Most systems have a broadband Internet
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connection or better, with only 7% having 512 Kbps or less, and 51%
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having 10 Mbps or better. DSL is the most common form of Internet
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connection, with over half the responses (51%).</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Software</title>
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<para></para>
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<para>The most popular Linux distribution on which users run Shorewall
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is Debian (26% of respondents), followed by a group consisting of Fedora
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Core (16%), Red Hat 9 and earlier (13%) and Red Hat Enterprise and
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derivatives (12%). The next group consists of SUSE (9%), Slackware (8%),
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Gentoo (6%), and LEAF/Bering (5%).</para>
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<para>The message about maintaining an up-to-date Shorewall system seems
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to have gotten through, with 61% of respondents running the latest
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version (3.0), and an additional 22% running the previous stable version
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(2.4). Only 14% of users are running unsupported versions (2.2 and
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older).</para>
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<para>The most common roles played by Shorewall systems are:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<para>External firewall/router (78%)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>DNS name server (61%)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>DHCP server (59%)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Internal firewall/router (56%)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Time server (55%)</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Comments from users</title>
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<para>Here's a sample of the comments we received about the survey
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(carefully sanitised to make us look good ;-).</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>More power to Shorewall!</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Shorewall Rocks! I'm amazed how easy it is every time I need
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to do something, even if it's been 6+ months since the last change!
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:)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Good job and a great product</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Shorewall is good, I have recommended it to several people,
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mostly working in the University & academic areas.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Thanks to everyone who contributes to Shorewall. That's a
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*great* piece of software!</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Shorewall has been incredible. Tom has given so much of
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himself to this project, I can only say thank you from one person, I
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look up to people like him. I have used Shorewall for many systems,
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I am a contractor that "set up shop" all over the world. Depending
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on the available ISP services, this project has been flexible in
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every situation to date. Also, depending on my needs, it has done
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the same. "IP Tables made easy" is really an accurate
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description.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>I'm quite intersted in seeing what the 'cross section' of
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Shorewall users are like. It's made my life a lot easier over the
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years, Thank you.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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</section>
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<para></para>
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<para></para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title></title>
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<section>
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<title></title>
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<para></para>
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<para></para>
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</section>
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<para></para>
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</section>
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