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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
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<article id="Shorewall_Doesnt">
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<!--$Id$-->
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<articleinfo>
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<title>Some Things that Shorewall Does Not Do</title>
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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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<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2003-2009</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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<caution>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">This article applies to Shorewall 3.0 and
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later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall
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3.0.0 then please see the documentation for that release</emphasis></para>
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</caution>
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<section id="Doesnt">
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<title>Shorewall Does not:</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Act as a <quote>Personal Firewall</quote> that allows Internet
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access control by application. If that's what you are looking for, try
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<ulink
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url="http://tuxguardian.sourceforge.net/">TuxGuardian</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Work with an Operating System other than Linux (version >=
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2.4.0)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Act as a Proxy (although it can be used with a separate proxy
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such as Squid or Socks).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Do content filtering:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>HTTP - better to use <ulink
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url="Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html">Squid</ulink> and <ulink
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url="http://dansguardian.org/">Dansguardian</ulink> for
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that.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Email -- Install something like <ulink
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url="http://www.postfix.org">Postfix</ulink> on your firewall and
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integrate it with <ulink
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url="http://www.spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</ulink> , <ulink
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url="http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/">Amavisd-new</ulink> and
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<ulink url="http://www.clamav.net/">Clamav</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Configure/manage Network Devices (your Distribution includes
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tools for that).</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section id="Patching">
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<title>In Addition:</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Shorewall generally does not contain any support for Netfilter
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<ulink
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url="http://dev.medozas.de/files/xtables/">xtables-addons</ulink>
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features -- Shorewall only supports features from released kernels
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except in unusual cases.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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</article>
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