shorewall_code/Shorewall-docs2/Kernel2.6.xml

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    <title>Shorewall and the 2.6 Linux Kernel</title>

    <authorgroup>
      <author>
        <firstname>Tom</firstname>

        <surname>Eastep</surname>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>

    <pubdate>2003-08-25</pubdate>

    <copyright>
      <year>2003</year>

      <year>2004</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>

  <section>
    <title>General</title>

    <para>Shorewall is compatible with the Linux 2.6 kernel series and
    contains support for the following features that are added in that
    series:</para>

    <orderedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="netmap.html">NETMAP</ulink> Target Support.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="bridge.html">Bridge/Firewall</ulink> Support
        (physdev match support).</para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>IPSEC</title>

    <para>The 2.6 Linux kernel introduces a new implementation of IPSEC which
    eliminates the <filename class="devicefile">ipsecN</filename> device
    names. Netfilter/iptables support for this new implementation is
    incomplete and therefore Shorewall support is limited. See the <ulink
    url="IPSEC.htm">Shorewall IPSEC documentation</ulink>.</para>

    <para><emphasis role="bold">Update:</emphasis> The Shorewall 2.1 <ulink
    url="ReleaseModel.html">Development release</ulink> now contains support
    for IPSEC under the 2.6 Kernel. See the <ulink url="IPSEC-2.6.html">Kernel
    2.6 IPSEC documentation</ulink> for details.</para>
  </section>
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