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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Quotes from Shorewall Users<br>
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<li><font size="3">"I have fought with IPtables for untold hours.
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First
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I tried the SuSE firewall, which worked for 80% of what I needed. Then
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gShield, which also worked for 80%. Then I set out to write my own
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IPtables parser in shell and awk, which was a lot of fun but never got
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me past the "hey, cool"
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stage. Then I discovered Shorewall. After about an hour, everything
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just
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worked. I am stunned, and very grateful"</font> -- ES, Phoenix AZ, USA.<br>
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<li>"The configuration is intuitive and flexible, and much easier
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than
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any of the other iptables-based firewall programs out there. After
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sifting
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through many other scripts, it is obvious that yours is the most well
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thought-out and complete one available." -- BC, USA<br>
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<li>"I just installed Shorewall after weeks of messing with
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ipchains/iptables and I had it up and running in under 20 minutes!" --
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JL, Ohio<br>
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<li>"My case was almost like [the one above]. Well. instead of
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'weeks'
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it was 'months' for me, and I think I needed two minutes more:<br>
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<li>One to see that I had no Internet access from the firewall
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itself.</li>
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<li>Other to see that this was the default configuration, and it
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was enough to uncomment a line in /etc/shorewall/policy.<br>
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<li> Minutes instead of months! Congratulations and thanks for such
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a simple and well documented thing for something as huge as iptables."
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--
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JV, Spain. </li>
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<li>"I downloaded Shorewall 1.2.0 and installed it on Mandrake 8.1
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without any problems. Your documentation is great and I really
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appreciate
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your network configuration info. That really helped me out alot.
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THANKS!!!" -- MM. </li>
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<li>"[Shorewall is a] great, great project. I've used/tested may
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firewall scripts but this one is till now the best." -- B.R,
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Netherlands </li>
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<li>"Never in my +12 year career as a sys admin have I witnessed
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someone so relentless in developing a secure, state of the art, safe
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and useful product as the Shorewall firewall package for no cost or
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obligation involved." -- Mario Kerecki, Toronto </li>
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<li>"one time more to report, that your great shorewall in the latest
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release 1.2.9 is working fine for me with SuSE Linux 7.3! I now
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have 7 machines up and running with shorewall on several versions
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- starting with 1.2.2 up to the new 1.2.9 and I never have encountered
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any problems!" -- SM, Germany</li>
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<li>"You have the best support of any other package I've ever used."
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-- SE, US </li>
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<li>"Because our company has information which has been classified by
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the national government as secret, our security doesn't stop by putting
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a fence around our company. Information security is a hot issue. We
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also make use of checkpoint firewalls, but not all of the internet
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servers are guarded by checkpoint, some of them are
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running....Shorewall." -- Name withheld by request, Europe</li>
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<li>"thanx for all your efforts you put into shorewall - this product
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stands out against a lot of commercial stuff i<>ve been working with in
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terms of flexibillity, quality & support" -- RM, Austria</li>
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<li>"I have never seen such a complete firewall package that is so
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easy
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to configure. I searched the Debian package system for firewall scripts
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and Shorewall won hands down." -- RG, Toronto</li>
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<p></p>
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<li>"My respects... I've just found and installed Shorewall 1.3.3-1
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and
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it is a wonderful piece of software. I've just sent out an email to
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about 30 people recommending it. :-)<br>
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While I had previously taken the time (maybe 40 hours) to really
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understand ipchains, then spent at least an hour per server customizing
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and carefully scrutinizing firewall rules, I've got shorewall running
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on my home firewall, with rulesets and policies that I know make sense,
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in under 20 minutes." -- RP, Guatamala<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica">Updated
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7/1/2003 - <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a> </font> </p>
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<p><font face="Trebuchet MS"><a href="copyright.htm"><font size="2">Copyright</font>
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<EFBFBD> <font size="2">2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a></font></p>
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