Shorewall 1.4 "iptables made easy" |
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What is it?The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a Netfilter (iptables) based firewall that can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux system. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it
under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation. Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep Running Shorewall on Mandrake with a two-interface setup?If so, the documentation on this site will not apply directly to your setup. If you want to use the documentation that you find here, you will want to consider uninstalling what you have and installing a setup that matches the documentation on this site. See the Two-interface QuickStart Guide for details.Getting Started with ShorewallNew to Shorewall? Start by selecting the QuickStart Guide that most closely match your environment and follow the step by step instructions.News7/4/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.6 Beta 1
http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/testing Problems Corrected:
New Features:
6/17/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.5 Problems Corrected:
New Features:
6/15/2003 - Shorewall, Kernel 2.4.21 and iptables 1.2.8 The firewall at shorewall.net has been upgraded to the 2.4.21 kernel
and iptables 1.2.8 (using the "official" RPM from netfilter.org). No problems
have been encountered with this set of software. The Shorewall version
is 1.4.4b plus the accumulated changes for 1.4.5. 6/8/2003 - Updated Samples Thanks to Francesca Smith, the samples have been updated to Shorewall version 1.4.4.
Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak
have a LEAF (router/firewall/gateway
on a floppy, CD or compact flash) distribution
called Bering that features
Shorewall-1.4.2 and Kernel-2.4.20. You
can find their work at: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo Donations |
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Updated 7/4/2003 - Tom Eastep