shorewall_code/Shorewall-docs/shorewall_prerequisites.xml

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  <articleinfo>
    <title>Shorewall Requirements</title>

    <author>
      <firstname>Tom</firstname>

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

    <pubdate>2003-12-01</pubdate>

    <copyright>
      <year>2001-2003</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>Shorewall Requires:</title>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>A kernel that supports netfilter. I&#39;ve tested with 2.4.2 -
        2.4.23. With current releases of Shorewall, Traffic Shaping/Control
        requires at least 2.4.18. Check <ulink url="kernel.htm">here</ulink>
        for kernel configuration information. If you are looking for a
        firewall for use with 2.2 kernels, see <ulink
        url="http://seawall.sourceforge.net">the Seattle Firewall site</ulink>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>iptables 1.2 or later but beware version 1.2.3 -- see the <ulink
        url="errata.htm">Errata</ulink>.</para>

        <warning>
          <para>The buggy iptables version 1.2.3 is included in RedHat 7.2 and
          you should upgrade to iptables 1.2.4 prior to installing Shorewall.
          Version 1.2.4 is available <ulink
          url="http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-144.html">from
          RedHat</ulink> and in the <ulink url="errata.htm">Shorewall Errata</ulink>.</para>
        </warning>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Iproute (<quote>ip</quote> utility). The iproute package is
        included with most distributions but may not be installed by default.
        The official download site is <ulink type="remote"
        url="ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing">ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing</ulink>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>A Bourne shell or derivative such as bash or ash. This shell
        must have correct support for variable expansion formats ${<emphasis>variable%pattern</emphasis>},
        ${<emphasis>variable%%pattern</emphasis>}, ${<emphasis>variable#pattern</emphasis>}
        and ${<emphasis>variable##pattern</emphasis>}.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Your shell must produce a sensible result when a number n (128
        &#60;= n &#60;= 255) is left shifted by 24 bits. You can check this at
        a shell prompt by:<itemizedlist><listitem><para>echo $((128 &#60;&#60;
        24))</para></listitem><listitem><para>The result must be either
        2147483648 or -2147483648.</para></listitem></itemizedlist></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>The firewall monitoring display is greatly improved if you have
        awk (gawk) installed.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
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