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<title>Shorewall Prerequisites</title>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Shorewall Requirements</h1>
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Shorewall Requires:<br>
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<li>A kernel that supports netfilter. I've tested with 2.4.2 -
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2.4.23-rc2. With current releases of Shorewall, Traffic
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Shaping/Control
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requires at least 2.4.18. <a href="kernel.htm"> Check here for
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kernel configuration information.</a> If you are looking for a firewall
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for use with 2.2 kernels, <a href="http://seawall.sf.net"> see the
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Seattle
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Firewall site</a> .</li>
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<li>iptables 1.2 or later but beware version 1.2.3 -- see the <a
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href="errata.htm">Errata</a>. <font color="#ff0000"><b>WARNING: </b></font>The
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buggy iptables version 1.2.3 is included in RedHat 7.2 and you should
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upgrade to iptables 1.2.4 prior to installing Shorewall. Version 1.2.4
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is available <a
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href="http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-144.html">from
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RedHat</a> and in the <a href="errata.htm">Shorewall Errata</a>. </li>
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<li>Iproute ("ip" utility). The iproute package is included with most
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distributions but may not be installed by default. The official
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download site is <a href="ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing"
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target="_blank"> <font face="Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica">f</font>tp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing</a>.
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<li>A Bourne shell or derivative such as bash or ash. This shell must
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have correct support for variable expansion formats ${<i>variable</i>%<i>pattern</i>
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}, ${<i>variable</i>%%<i>pattern</i>}, ${<i>variable</i>#<i>pattern</i>
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} and ${<i>variable</i>##<i>pattern</i>}.</li>
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<li>Your shell must produce a sensible result when a number n (128
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<= n <= 255) is left shifted by 24 bits. You can check this at a
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shell prompt by:</li>
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<li>echo $((128 << 24))<br>
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</li>
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<li>The result must be either 2147483648 or -2147483648.<br>
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<li>The firewall monitoring display is greatly improved if you have
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awk (gawk) installed.</li>
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<p align="left"><font size="2">Last updated 11/20/2003 - <a
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href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><a href="copyright.htm"> <font
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size="2">Copyright</font> <20> <font size="2">2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M.
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Eastep.</font></a></font></p>
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