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@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ Migration Considerations:
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1) Shorewall-perl
This companion product to Shorewall 3.4.2 and later includes a complete
rewrite of the compiler in Perl.
This Shorewall package includes a complete rewrite of the compiler
in Perl.
I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate product for several reasons:
I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate package for several reasons:
a) Embedded applications are unlikely to adopt Shorewall-perl; even
Mini-Perl has a substantial disk and RAM footprint.
@ -137,7 +137,10 @@ Migration Considerations:
b) The compiler is very fast.
c) The compiler generates a firewall script that uses iptables-restore;
so the script is very fast.
d) Use of the perl compiler is optional! The old slow clunky
d) The new compiler does a much better job of validating the
configuration and catches many errors that resulted in run-time
failures with the old compiler.
e) Use of the Shorewall-perl is optional! The old slow clunky
Bourne-shell compiler is still available.
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