Shorewall Download

Tom Eastep

 Copyright ©  2001-2006 Thomas M. Eastep

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2006-02-28

Table of Contents

Package Information
Finding Updates that Correct Known Problems
Download Sites
SVN

Package Information

Before trying to install, I strongly urge you to read and print a copy of the Shorewall QuickStart Guide for the configuration that most closely matches your own.

The entire set of Shorewall documentation is available in PDF format at:

    ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/
    http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/
    rsync://slovakia.shorewall.net/shorewall/pdf/

The documentation in both XML and HTML formats is also available for download from the Download Sites listed in the table below.

NOTICE: There are two current Shorewall Release Series:

For additional information, see this article about the Shorewall Release Model.

Once you've printed the appropriate QuickStart Guide, download one of the modules:

You will probably also want to download the HTML version of the documentation for easy reference.

Finding Updates that Correct Known Problems

Beginning with Shorewall 2.2.0, you will find a file named known_problems.txt in the download directory. This file lists the known problems with that version of Shorewall. If corrections are available, they will be listed in the known problems and you can download them from the 'errata' subdirectory.

Example:

ftp> cd pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.0
250 OK. Current directory is /pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.0
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (206,124,146,177,35,91)
150 Accepted data connection
drwxr-sr-x    3 0        0            4096 Feb  1 09:52 .
drwxr-sr-x    3 0        0            4096 Jan 28 14:28 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0             500 Jan 28 14:27 2.2.0.md5sums
drwxr-sr-x    2 0        0            4096 Feb  1 09:51 errata             <=== (1)
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0             156 Feb  1 09:52 known_problems.txt <=== (2)
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0           16059 Jan 24 16:13 patch-2.2.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 0        0           22963 Jan 24 16:10 releasenotes.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          100232 Jan 25 15:58 shorewall-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          122161 Jan 25 15:58 shorewall-2.2.0.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0         2534077 Jan 28 13:29 shorewall-docs-html-2.2.0.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0         4481205 Jan 28 13:29 shorewall-docs-xml-2.2.0.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0           93905 Jan 25 15:58 shorewall-lrp-2.2.0.tgz
226-Options: -a -l
226 13 matches total
ftp>

(1) Directory containing updates. For Shorewall versions prior to 2.4.0, the updates/LRP directory contains those updates that apply to the LRP package.
(2) List of known problems, workarounds and updates..                           

Download Sites

Redhat and Fedora RPMS provided by Simon Matter: http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/shorewall/

Mandriva RPMS provided by Jack Coates: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/net/shorewall/

Slackware packages created by JMedina. You can download them from his site.

OpenWRT package provided by Marc Zonzon: http://www.iut-lannion.fr/ZONZON/memos_index.php?part=Network&section=WRTMemo&subsec=shorewall

Leaf/Bering package is available at http://leaf.sourceforge.net/bering-uclibc/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=3:3

Use the sites below to download thetarball, the documentation and the standard RPM for (Suse, Power PPC, Trustix and TurboLinux).

Packages are GPG signed, please verify the integrity of the files using our public key https://lists.shorewall.net/shorewall.gpg.key
SERVER LOCATION DOMAIN HTTP FTP
Slovak Republic Shorewall.net Browse Browse
Vienna, Va, USA Shorewall.net Browse Browse
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
 Shorewall.de
 Browse
 Browse
Shoreline, Wa, USA
 Shorewall.net
 Browse
 Browse
Boston, Mass., USA
 viisage.com
 Browse
 N/A
Austin Texas, USA
 shorewall.net
 Browse
 Browse
Plano Texas, USA Infohiiway.com Browse Browse
Argentina
 Shorewall.net
 Browse
 Browse
Sourceforge - California, USA (Incomplete)
 Sourceforge.net
 Browse
 N/A

SVN

The SVN Repository at Sourceforge is used as a safe-store for Shorewall releases.

You should download and use the latest SVN version only at your own risk -- If you are looking for bug fixes for the current release, see above.

The following SVN projects are currently active:
  1. Shorewall

    This project contains the Shorewall code.
    "trunk" is the current development version.

    You can download it using the following commands:

    # svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk/Shorewall

    The current stable version is branch named x.y where x.y is the major version. Example: 3.0.
    You can download it using the following commands:

    # svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/branches/x.y/Shorewall


  2. docs

    This project contains the Shorewall documenation.
    trunk is the current development version.


    You can always get the current documentation in XML Docbook format using the following command:

    #svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk/docs

  3. web

    The project contains the part of this Web site not included in the "docs" project.

  4. tools

    This project includes the tools used by the Shorewall developers to build Shorewall releases and to publish content to the web sites.

  5. Samples

    This project contains the sample configurations.