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<p> </p>
<hr><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009-06-19</span>
<hr><span style="font-weight: bold;">2009-06-28</span>
<h2><a name="Which"></a>Package Information</h2>
<p><b>Before trying to install, we strongly urge you to read and print
a
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In Shorewall version <span style="font-weight: bold;">4.4.*</span>,
the Shorewall-common, Shorewall-shell and
Shorewall-perl packages are discontinued and replaced with a single <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Shorewall</span> package which combined the
style="font-weight: bold;">Shorewall</span> package which combines the
functions of Shorewall-common and Shorewall-perl. The shell-based
compiler is retired. So with Shorewall 4.4 onward, there are four
packages:<br>
@ -127,11 +127,14 @@ installed.</li>
</ul>
To summarize:
<ul>
<li>If you are installing Shorewall 4.2 or earlier:<br>
<li>If you are installing <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shorewall
4.2 or earlier</span>:<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>On at least one system in your network, you must install one or
both of the compilers (Shorewall-shell and/or Shorewall-perl), the
both of the compilers (Shorewall-shell and/or Shorewall-perl; <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Shorewall-perl is highly recommended</span>),
the
Shorewall-common package and possibly the Shorewall6 package.</li>
<li>If you only have a single firewall, then that system should be
your firewall system.</li>
@ -146,15 +149,17 @@ and/or shorewall-perl) and shorewall-common must be installed in a
single execution of the
rpm utility.</li>
</ul>
<li>If you are installing Shorewall 4.4 or later:</li>
<li>If you are installing <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shorewall
4.4 or later</span>:</li>
<ul>
<li>On at least one system in your network, you must install the
Shorewall package. If you need IPv6 firewalls then you must also
install the Shoreall6 package.</li>
install the Shorewall6 package.</li>
<li>If you have a single firewall, then that system should be your
firewall system.</li>
<li>If you have more than one firewall, you may wish to install
Shorewall on a single <span style="font-style: italic;">administrative</span>
Shorewall (and possibly Shorewall6) on a single <span
style="font-style: italic;">administrative</span>
system and install Shorewall-lite and/or Shorewall6-lite on the
firewalls. Doing so will allow for centralized administration and
configuration of the firewalls.<br>
@ -164,7 +169,7 @@ configuration of the firewalls.<br>
<p>Here are the <a href="Install.htm">installation instructions</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="Distros"></a>Distribution-specific Download Sites</h2>
<p>Once you've printed the appropriate QuickStart Guide, download the
appropriate modules:</p>
appropriate Packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Simon Matter provides RPMs tailored
@ -205,13 +210,20 @@ installing the RPM.</p>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If you run <a
href="http://www.debian.org/"><b>Debian</b></a> and would like a .deb
package, Shorewall is included in both the <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/">Debian
package, Shorewall is included in the <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/">Debian Stable Branch</a>,
the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/">Debian
Testing Branch</a> and the <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/">Debian
Unstable Branch</a>. Additionally, packages for the current Debian
Unstable Branch</a>. For new installations, it is highly recommended
that you install the shorewall-common and shorewall-perl packages
rather than the shorewall package.<br>
<br>
Additionally, packages for the current Debian
stable release are available from the package maintainer's <a
href="http://people.connexer.com/%7Eroberto/debian/">personal page</a>.<br>
href="http://people.connexer.com/%7Eroberto/debian/">personal page</a>.
Those packages are almost always more up-to-date than the ones in the
Debian Stable Branch.<br>
<br>
</p>
</li>