Shorewall Lite 3.2.0 RC 4 Problems Corrected in 3.2.0 RC 4 1) RESTOREFILE has been added to shorewall.conf. 2) Many references to incorrect file names and commands have been corrected in shorewall.conf. 3) /sbin/shorewall-lite still supported the 'refresh' command whereas the firewall script generated by 'compile' did not. This lead to the following: gateway:~ # shorewall-lite refresh Usage: /usr/share/shorewall-lite/firewall [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -n ] [ start|stop|clear|restart|status|version ] gateway:~ # Other changes in 3.2.0 RC 4 1) The progress messages produced by Shorewall Lite now correctly identify the product as 'Shorewall Lite' rather than 'Shorewall'. In order for this to work, you must have Shorewall RC4 installed on your administrative system(s) and Shorewall Lite RC4 on the firewall system(s). 2) /usr/share/shorewall-lite/firewall has been moved to /var/lib/shorewall-lite/firewall. When upgrading to this release of Shorewall Lite, please execute the following command: cp -a /usr/share/shorewall-lite/firewall /var/lib/shorewall-lite/ Note : The 'firewall' script is in /var/lib/shorewall-lite in packages from shorewall.net. The package maintainers for the various distributions are free to choose the directory where the script will be stored under their distribution by altering the value of LITEDIR in /usr/share/shorewall/configpath. You can run the "shorewall show config" command to see how your distribution defines LITEDIR. New Features: Shorewall Lite is a companion product to Shorewall and is designed to allow you to maintain all Shorewall configuration information on a single system within your network. a) You install the full Shorewall release on one system within your network. You need not configure Shorewall there and you may totally disable startup of Shorewall in your init scripts. For ease of reference, we call this system the 'administrative system'. b) On each system where you wish to run a Shorewall-generated firewall, you install Shorewall Lite. For ease of reference, we will call these systems the 'firewall systems' c) On the administrative system you create a separate 'configuration directory' for each firewall system. You copy the contents of /usr/share/shorewall/configfiles into each configuration directory. d) On each firewall system, you run: /usr/share/shorewall/shorecap > capabilities scp capabilities : e) On the administrative system, for each firewall system you: 1) modify the files in the corresponding configuration directory appropriately. 2) (this may be done as a non-root user) cd /sbin/shorewall load . 3) If you need to change the configuration, after you have modified the configuration: cd /sbin/shorewall reload . It is possible to have both shorewall and Shorewall Lite installed on the same system. For more information, see: http://www.shorewall.net/CompiledProgram.html#Lite