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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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<articleinfo>
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<title>Shorewall Version 4</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Eastep</surname>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2007</year>
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<year>2009</year>
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<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
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1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
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no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
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License</ulink></quote>.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</articleinfo>
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<section id="Intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>Shorewall version 4.0 represented a substantial shift in direction
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for Shorewall. Up until then</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Shorewall had been written entirely in Bourne Shell.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Shorewall had run the <command>iptables</command> utility to add
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each Netfilter rule.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Shorewall version 4.0 offered you a choice. You could continue to
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use the existing shell-based implementation or you could use a new
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implementation of the Shorewall compiler written in the Perl programming
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language. The new compiler:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>had a small disk footprint</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>was very fast.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>generateed a firewall script that uses
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<command>iptables-restore</command>; so the script was very
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fast.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>generated better and more consistent error messages.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>did a much more thorough job of checking the configuration to
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avoid run-time errors.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>supported creating either Ipv4 or Ipv6 firewalls (Shorewall
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4.2.4 and later).</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para><ulink url="Shorewall-perl.html#Install">Both compilers could be
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installed on your system</ulink> and you could <ulink
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url="Shorewall-perl.html#CompilerSelection">use whichever one suited you
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in a particular case</ulink>.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="Install">
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<title>Shorewall 4.4</title>
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<para>Shorewall 4.4 (currently in Beta testing) discontinues the
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availability of the legacy shell-based compiler. All users must migrate to
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the perl-based compiler before or during an upgrade to Shorewall version
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4.4. We highly recommend that current users of the shell-based compiler
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migrate before upgrading to 4.4 so that both compilers are available
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during the migration.</para>
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<para>Shorewall 4.4 contains four packages:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall</emphasis> - Everything needed
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to create an IPv4 firewall.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall-lite</emphasis>- Can run scripts
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generated by Shorewall on another system.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall6</emphasis> - The utilities for
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creating and operating an Ipv6 firewall. Requires Shorewall.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall6-lite</emphasis> - Ipv6
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equivalent of Shorewall Lite. Can run scripts generated by Shoreall on
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another system.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section id="Prereqs">
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<title>Prerequisites for using the Shorewall Version 4.2/4.4 Perl-based
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Compiler</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Perl (I use Perl 5.8.10 but other 5.8 versions should work
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fine). <note>
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<para>If you want to be able to use DNS names in your Shorewall6
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configuration files, then Perl 5.10 is required together with the
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Perl <emphasis role="bold">Socket6</emphasis> module.</para>
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</note></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Cwd</emphasis> Module</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">File::Basename</emphasis>
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Module</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">File::Temp</emphasis> Module</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Getopt::Long</emphasis> Module</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Carp</emphasis> Module</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">FindBin</emphasis> Module</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Scalar::Util </emphasis>Module</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Please note that there are <ulink url="IPv6Support.html">additional
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requirements</ulink> if you plan to install and use Shorewall6.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="Incompatibilities">
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<title>Incompatibilities Introduced in the Shorewall Version 4 Perl-based
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Compiler</title>
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<para>The Shorewall Perl-based compiler is not 100% compatible with the
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Shorewall shell-based version. See <ulink url="Shorewall-perl.html">this
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document</ulink> for details.</para>
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</section>
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</article>
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