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@ -113,17 +113,17 @@ Migration Considerations:
caused the corresponding flag in /proc to be reset for all
interfaces. Beginning in Shorewall 4.0.0, leaving these options
empty causes Shorewall to leave the flags in /proc as they are. You
must set the option to 'No' in order to obtain the old behavior.
must set the option to 'No' in order to obtain the old behavior.
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N E W F E A T U R E S
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1) Shorewall-perl
This companion product to Shorewall 3.4.2 and later includes a complete
rewrite of the compiler in Perl.
This Shorewall package includes a complete rewrite of the compiler
in Perl.
I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate product for several reasons:
I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate package for several reasons:
a) Embedded applications are unlikely to adopt Shorewall-perl; even
Mini-Perl has a substantial disk and RAM footprint.
@ -137,7 +137,10 @@ Migration Considerations:
b) The compiler is very fast.
c) The compiler generates a firewall script that uses iptables-restore;
so the script is very fast.
d) Use of the perl compiler is optional! The old slow clunky
d) The new compiler does a much better job of validating the
configuration and catches many errors that resulted in run-time
failures with the old compiler.
e) Use of the Shorewall-perl is optional! The old slow clunky
Bourne-shell compiler is still available.
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T H E B A D N E W S: