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2005-11-06

1. Which Package do I Need?
2. Finding Updates that Correct Known Problems
3. Download Sites
4. CVS

1. Which Package do I Need?

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:

• The STABLE release series is 2.4. Choose this release if you value stability and good documentation.
  
• The DEVELOPMENT release series is 3.0 which is now in Release Candidate phase. Choose this release if you want the latest and greatest and are willing to help test it.
  

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

• Simon Matter provides RPMs taylored for Redhat and Fedora. You can download them from his site.
  
• Jack Coates provides RPMs taylored for Mandrake. You can download them from his site.
• Marc Zonzon provides a package for OpenWRT (Open firmware for Linksys® WRT54G). You can download it from his site.
  
• jMCg provides a package for Arch Linux. You can download it from the Arch Linux site.
• If you run a SuSE, Linux PPC, Trustix or TurboLinux distribution with a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, you can use the standard RPM version (note: the RPM should also work with other distributions that store init scripts in /etc/init.d and that include chkconfig or insserv). If you find that it works in other cases, let me know so that I can mention them here (Note: the standard RPM is known to work on Redhat, Fedora and Mandrake with issues ranging from trivial (Redhat and Fedora) to moderate (Mandrake)). See the Installation Instructions if you have problems installing the RPM.
  
• If you run Debian and would like a .deb package, Shorewall is included in both the Debian Testing Branch and the Debian Unstable Branch.
• If you run LEAF/Bering or one if it's derivatives, you can download a .lrp file from the Leaf site.
  
  From the LEAF Bering-uClibc Team: We try to provide the latest stable version shortly after release, but we also want to do some internal tests before making it available. So we may be
  behind sometimes. But better be sure that the new version is running on LEAF, than being too fast...
  
  I know it's not obvious for newbies where to find the lrp on our pages.
  
  shorewall.lrp is part of the packages page:
  
  http://leaf.sourceforge.net/bering-uclibc/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=3:3
  
  which itself links to cvs:
  
  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/leaf/bin/bering-uclibc/packages/shorwall.lrp?rev=HEAD&content-type=application/octet-stream
  
• Otherwise, download the shorewall module (.tgz)

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

2. 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..                           

3. Download Sites

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

4. CVS

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

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

The following CVS projects are currently active:

1. Shorewall
   
   HEAD is the current development version.
   The current stable version is branch named SHOREWALL-x_y where x.y is the major version. Example: SHOREWALL-2_4.
   Releases have tags with names of the form Shorewall-X_Y_Z. Example: Shorewall-2_4_6 is Shorewall version 2.4.6.
   
   
2. Shorewall-docs
   
   HEAD is the current development version.
   The current stable version will be a branch named SHOREWALL-x_y where x.y is the major version. Example: SHOREWALL-2_4.
   Releases have tags with names of the form Shorewall-X_Y_Z. Example: Shorewall-2_4_6 is the documentation for Shorewall version 2.4.6.
   
   
3. Shorewall-Website
   
   The part of this Web site not included in the Shorewall-docs project.
   
   
4. tools
   
   Tools used by the Shorewall developers to build Shorewall releases and to publish content to the web sites.
   
   
5. Samples
   
   The sample configurations.