Shorewall QuickStart Guides (HOWTOs)

With thanks to Richard who reminded me once again that we must all first walk before we can run.
The French Translations of the single-IP guides are courtesy of Patrice Vetsel
The French Translation of the Shorewall Setup Guide is courtesy of Fabien Demassieux.

The Guides

These guides provide step-by-step instructions for configuring Shorewall in common firewall setups.

If you have a single public IP address:

The above guides are designed to get your first firewall up and running quickly in the three most common Shorewall configurations. If you want to learn more about Shorewall than is explained in the above simple guides,  the Shorewall Setup Guide (See Index Below) is for you.

If you have more than one public IP address:

The Shorewall Setup Guide (See Index Below) outlines the steps necessary to set up a firewall where there are multiple public IP addresses involved or if you want to learn more about Shorewall than is explained in the single-address guides above (Version Française).

Documentation Index

The following documentation covers a variety of topics and supplements the QuickStart Guides described above. Please review the appropriate guide before trying to use this documentation directly.

If you use one of these guides and have a suggestion for improvement please let me know.

Last modified 10/30/2003 - Tom Eastep

Copyright 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep