Shorewall Download

Tom Eastep

Copyright ©  2001-2007 Thomas M. Eastep

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2007-07-17

Table of Contents

Package Information
Finding Updates that Correct Known Problems
Download Sites
SVN

Package Information

Before trying to install, I strongly urge you to read and print a copy of the Shorewall QuickStart Guide for the configuration that most closely matches your own.

The documentation in both XML and HTML formats is available for download from the Download Sites listed in the table below.

NOTICE: There are two current Shorewall Release Series:

• The STABLE release series is 4.0. Choose this release if you value stability and good documentation.

• The DEVELOPMENT release series is 4.1 (found in the 'development' directory). Choose this release if you are very experienced user and you are willing to help test the code and report bugs. THIS VERSION IS EXPERIMENTAL AND IS NOT SUPPORTED.

For additional information, see this article about the Shorewall Release Model.

Beginning with Shorewall version 4.0.0 RC1, there are four related packages:

• Shorewall-shell -- the legacy Shorewall configuration compiler written in Bourne Shell.
• Shorewall-perl -- an implementation of the Shorewall configuration compiler written in the Perl programming language. This compiler is much faster than Shorewall-shell and produces a firewall script that runs faster. It is the preferred compiler for new Shorewall installations.
• Shorewall-common -- A base package required by both Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl.
• Shorewall Lite -- a light-weight Shorewall version that will run compiled firewall scripts generated on a system with one of the compiler packages installed.

• On at least one system in your network, you must install one or both of the compilers (Shorewall-shell and/or Shorewall-perl) and the Shorewall-common package.
• If you only have a single firewall, then that system should be your firewall system.
• If you have more than one firewall, you may wish to install one or both of the compilers on a single administrative system and install Shorewall-lite on the firewalls. Doing so will allow for centralized administration and configuration of the firewalls.

You probably don't want to install both a Shorewall compiler and Shorewall Lite on the same system. See the Shorewall Lite Documentation for details.

Once you've printed the appropriate QuickStart Guide, download the appropriate modules:

• Simon Matter provides RPMs tailored for Redhat and Fedora. You can download them from his site.

• Jack Coates provides RPMs tailored for Mandriva. You can download them from his site.

• jmedina provides packages for Slackware. You can download them from his site.

• Fabio Longarai provides a package for OpenWRT (Open firmware for Linksys® WRT54G). You can download it from his site.

• jMCg provides a package for Arch Linux. You can download it from the Arch Linux site.

• If you run a SUSE, Linux PPC, Trustix or TurboLinux distribution with a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, you can use the standard RPM version (note: the RPM should also work with other distributions that store init scripts in /etc/init.d and that include chkconfig or insserv). If you find that it works in other cases, let me know so that I can mention them here (Note: the standard RPM is known to work on Redhat, Fedora and Mandriva with issues ranging from trivial (Redhat and Fedora) to moderate (Mandriva)). See the Installation Instructions if you have problems installing the RPM.

• If you run Debian and would like a .deb package, Shorewall is included in both the Debian Testing Branch and the Debian Unstable Branch.

• If you run LEAF/Bering or one if it's derivatives, you can download a .lrp file from the Leaf site.
  
  From the LEAF Bering-uClibc Team: We try to provide the latest stable version shortly after release, but we also want to do some internal tests before making it available. So we may be behind sometimes. But better be sure that the new version is running on LEAF, than being too fast...
  
  I know it's not obvious for newbies where to find the lrp on our pages.
  
  shorewall.lrp is part of the packages page:
  
  http://leaf.sourceforge.net/bering-uclibc/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=3:3
  
  which itself links to cvs:
  
  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/leaf/bin/bering-uclibc/packages/shorwall.lrp?rev=HEAD&content-type=application/octet-stream

• Otherwise, download the shorewall module (.tgz)

You will probably also want to download the HTML version of the documentation for easy reference.

Finding Updates that Correct Known Problems

Beginning with Shorewall 2.2.0, you will find a file named known_problems.txt in the download directory. This file lists the known problems with that version of Shorewall. If corrections are available, they will be listed in the known problems and you can download them from the 'errata' subdirectory.

Example:

ftp> cd pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.0
250 OK. Current directory is /pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.0
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (206,124,146,177,35,91)
150 Accepted data connection
drwxr-sr-x    3 0        0            4096 Feb  1 09:52 .
drwxr-sr-x    3 0        0            4096 Jan 28 14:28 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0             500 Jan 28 14:27 2.2.0.md5sums
drwxr-sr-x    2 0        0            4096 Feb  1 09:51 errata             <=== (1)
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0             156 Feb  1 09:52 known_problems.txt <=== (2)
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0           16059 Jan 24 16:13 patch-2.2.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 0        0           22963 Jan 24 16:10 releasenotes.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          100232 Jan 25 15:58 shorewall-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          122161 Jan 25 15:58 shorewall-2.2.0.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0         2534077 Jan 28 13:29 shorewall-docs-html-2.2.0.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0         4481205 Jan 28 13:29 shorewall-docs-xml-2.2.0.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0           93905 Jan 25 15:58 shorewall-lrp-2.2.0.tgz
226-Options: -a -l
226 13 matches total
ftp>

(1) Directory containing updates. For Shorewall versions prior to 2.4.0, the updates/LRP directory contains those updates that apply to the LRP package.
(2) List of known problems, workarounds and updates..                           

Download Sites

Redhat and Fedora RPMS provided by Simon Matter: http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/shorewall/

Mandriva RPMS provided by Jack Coates: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/net/shorewall/

Slackware packages created by JMedina. You can download them from his site.

OpenWRT package provided by Marc Zonzon: http://www.iut-lannion.fr/ZONZON/memos_index.php?part=Network&section=WRTMemo&subsec=shorewall

Leaf/Bering package is available at http://leaf.sourceforge.net/bering-uclibc/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=3:3

Use the sites below to download the tarball, the documentation and the standard RPM for (SUSE, Power PPC, Trustix and TurboLinux).

Packages are GPG signed, please verify the integrity of the files using our public key https://lists.shorewall.net/shorewall.gpg.key

SERVER LOCATION	DOMAIN	HTTP	FTP
Slovak Republic	Shorewall.net	Browse	Browse
Seattle, Washington, USA	Shorewall.net	Browse	Browse
Frankfurt/Main, Germany	Shorewall.de	Browse	N/A
Shoreline, Wa, USA	Shorewall.net	Browse	Browse
Boston, Mass., USA	viisage.com	Browse	N/A
Austin Texas, USA (Currently Offline)	shorewall.net	Browse	Browse
Plano Texas, USA	Infohiiway.com	Browse	Browse
Argentina	Shorewall.net	Browse	N/A
Santiago, Chile	Syachile.cl	N/A	Browse
Sourceforge - California, USA (Incomplete)	Sourceforge.net	Browse	N/A

SVN

The SVN Repository at Sourceforge is used as a safe-store for Shorewall releases.

You should download and use the latest SVN version only at your own risk -- please do not attempt to install Shorewall from the SVN components; you will end up with an incomplete and non-working installation.

If you are looking for bug fixes for the current release, see above.

The following SVN projects are currently active:

1. branches

   This project contains sub-projects for each of the stable releases.

   The current stable version is branch named x.y where x.y is the major version. Example: 3.4.
   

   You can download it using the following commands:
   
       svn co https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/branches/x.y/Shorewall

2. Shorewall
   
   This project contains the Shorewall code.
   This project was renamed Shorewall-common in Shorewall 3.9.1.
   

3. Shorewall-common
   
   Beginning with Shorewall 3.9.1, this project contains the code common to any Shorewall configuration. It contains no compiler.
   'trunk' is the current development version.
   
   You can download it using the following commands:
   
       svn co https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk/Shorewall-common
   

4. Shorewall-shell
   
   Beginning with Shorewall 3.9.1, this project contains the legacy compiler written in Bourne shell. The current development version is in 'trunk.
   
   You can download it using the following commands:
   
       svn co https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk/Shorewall-shell

5. Shorewall-perl
   
   Beginning with Shorewall 3.9.0, this project contains the new compiler written in Perl. The current development version is in 'trunk'.
   
   You can download it using the following commands:
   
       svn co https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk/Shorewall-perl

6. manpages
   
   Beginning with Shorewall 3,4,0, this project contains the man pages for Shorewall. 'trunk' is the current development version.
   
   You can download it using the following commands:
   
       svn co https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk/manpages

7. manpages-lite
   
   Beginning with Shorewall 3.4.0, this project contains the man pages for Shorewall Lite. 'trunk'  is the current development version.
   
   You can download it using the following commands:
   
       svn co https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk/manpages-lite

8. docs
   
   This project contains the Shorewall documenation.
   trunk is the current development version.
   
   
   You can always get the current documentation in XML Docbook format using the following command:
   
       svn co https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk/docs

9. web
   
   The project contains the part of this Web site not included in the "docs" project.

10. tools
    
    This project includes the tools used by the Shorewall developers to build Shorewall releases and to publish content to the web sites.

11. Samples
    
    This project contains the sample configurations.

12. Shorewall-lite
    
    This project contains Shorewall Lite -- introduced in Shorewall version 3.2.0 RC1.