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<h1 align="center"> <font size="4"><i> <a
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</a></i></font><font
color="#ffffff">Shorewall 1.4 - <font
size="4">"<i>iptables made easy"</i></font></font><a
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<div align="center"><a href="/1.3/index.html" target="_top"><font
color="#ffffff">Shorewall 1.3 Site here</font></a></div>
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<h2 align="left">What is it?</h2>
<p>The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as<61> "Shorewall", is
a <a href="http://www.netfilter.org">Netfilter</a> (iptables)
based firewall that can be used on a dedicated firewall
system, a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone
GNU/Linux system.</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the
terms of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">Version
2 of the GNU General Public License</a> as published by the Free
Software Foundation.<br>
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This program is distributed
in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
License for more details.<br>
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You should have received
a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write
to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675
Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA</p>
<p><a href="copyright.htm">Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep</a></p>
<p> <a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net" target="_top"><img
border="0" src="images/leaflogo.gif" width="49" height="36">
</a>Jacques
Nilo and Eric Wolzak have a LEAF (router/firewall/gateway
on a floppy, CD or compact flash) distribution
called <i>Bering</i> that features
Shorewall-1.3.14 and Kernel-2.4.20. You can find
their work at: <a
href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo"> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo</a></p>
<b>Congratulations
to Jacques and Eric on the recent release of Bering
1.1!!! <br>
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<h2>News</h2>
<p><b>3/24/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.1 </b><b> </b><b><img
border="0" src="images/new10.gif" width="28" height="12" alt="(New)">
<20></b><b> </b></p>
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<p>This release follows up on 1.4.0. It corrects a problem introduced
in 1.4.0 and removes additional warts.<br>
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<b>Problems Corrected:</b><br>
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<li>When Shorewall 1.4.0 is run under the ash shell (such as on Bering/LEAF),
it can attempt to add ECN disabling rules even if the /etc/shorewall/ecn file
is empty. That problem has been corrected so that ECN disabling rules are
only added if there are entries in /etc/shorewall/ecn.</li>
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<b>New Features:</b><br>
<blockquote>Note: In the list that follows, the term <i>group </i>refers
to a particular network or subnetwork (which may be 0.0.0.0/0 or it may be
a host address) accessed through a particular interface. Examples:<br>
<blockquote>eth0:0.0.0.0/0<br>
eth2:192.168.1.0/24<br>
eth3:192.0.2.123<br>
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You can use the "shorewall check" command to see the groups associated with
each of your zones.<br>
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<li>Beginning with Shorewall 1.4.1, if a zone Z comprises more than
one group<i> </i>then if there is no explicit Z to Z policy and there are
no rules governing traffic from Z to Z then Shorewall will permit all traffic
between the groups in the zone.</li>
<li>Beginning with Shorewall 1.4.1, Shorewall will never create rules
to handle traffic from a group to itself.</li>
<li>A NONE policy is introduced in 1.4.1. When a policy of NONE is
specified from Z1 to Z2:</li>
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<li>There may be no rules created that govern connections from Z1
to Z2.</li>
<li>Shorewall will not create any infrastructure to handle traffic
from Z1 to Z2.</li>
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See the <a href="upgrade_issues.htm">upgrade issues</a> for a discussion
of how these changes may affect your configuration.
<p><a href="News.htm">More News</a></p>
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<h2>This site is hosted by the generous folks at <a
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<h2><a name="Donations"></a>Donations</h2>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://www.starlight.org"> <img
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<p align="center"><font size="4" color="#ffffff">Shorewall is free
but if you try it and find it useful, please consider making a donation
to <a
href="http://www.starlight.org"><font color="#ffffff">Starlight
Children's Foundation.</font></a> Thanks!</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">Updated 3/21/2003 - <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font>
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