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<article id="Shorewall_Doesnt">
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<articleinfo>
<title>Some Things that Shorewall Does Not Do</title>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2003-2009</year>
<holder>Thomas M Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<caution>
<para><emphasis role="bold">This article applies to Shorewall 3.0 and
later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall
3.0.0 then please see the documentation for that release</emphasis></para>
</caution>
<section id="Doesnt">
<title>Shorewall Does not:</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Act as a <quote>Personal Firewall</quote> that allows Internet
access control by application. If that's what you are looking for, try
<ulink
url="http://tuxguardian.sourceforge.net/">TuxGuardian</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Work with an Operating System other than Linux (version &gt;=
2.4.0)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Act as a Proxy (although it can be used with a separate proxy
such as Squid or Socks).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Do content filtering:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>HTTP - better to use <ulink
url="Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html">Squid</ulink> and <ulink
url="http://dansguardian.org/">Dansguardian</ulink> for
that.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Email -- Install something like <ulink
url="http://www.postfix.org">Postfix</ulink> on your firewall and
integrate it with <ulink
url="http://www.spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</ulink> , <ulink
url="http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/">Amavisd-new</ulink> and
<ulink url="http://www.clamav.net/">Clamav</ulink></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Configure/manage Network Devices (your Distribution includes
tools for that).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section id="Patching">
<title>In Addition:</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall generally does not contain any support for Netfilter
<ulink
url="http://dev.medozas.de/files/xtables/">xtables-addons</ulink>
features -- Shorewall only supports features from released kernels
except in unusual cases.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</article>