Shorewall Download

Tom Eastep

Copyright ©  2001-2005 Thomas M. Eastep

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2005-03-22


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.

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. 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/

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

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

Use the sites below to download the tarball, the documentation, the Leaf/Bering package and the standard RPM for (Suse, Power PPC, Trustix and TurboLinux).
SERVER LOCATION DOMAIN HTTP FTP
Slovak Republic Shorewall.net Browse Browse
San Jose, California, 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
France Shorewall.net Browse Browse
Taiwan
Greshko.com
Browse
Browse
Argentina
Shorewall.net
Browse
Browse
Brazil
securityopensource.org.br
Browse
N/A
Sourceforge - California, USA (Incomplete)
Sourceforge.net
Browse
N/A
Shoreline, Washington, USA
Shorewall.net
Browse
Browse

CVS:

The CVS repository at cvs.shorewall.net contains the latest snapshots of the each Shorewall component. There's no guarantee that what you find there will work at all.

The CVS repository also can be used to retreive the latest released versions. Here is a shell script that allows you to generate Shorewall packages from the current contents of the CVS repository (it is the same script that I use to build Shorewall releases).