Shorewall 1.3 - "iptables made easy"

What is it?

The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall",  is a Netfilter (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.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

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.

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

Copyright 2001, 2002 Thomas M. Eastep

News

8/7/2002 - STABLE branch added to CVS Repository

This branch will only be updated after I release a new version of Shorewall so you can always update from this branch to get the latest stable tree.

8/7/2002 - Upgrade Issues section added to the Errata Page

Now there is one place to go to look for issues involved with upgrading to recent versions of Shorewall.

8/7/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.6

This is primarily a bug-fix rollup with a couple of new features:

More News

SourceForge LogoThe Shorewall Project uses facilities provided by SourceForge.

Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak have a LEAF distribution called Bering that features Shorewall-1.3.3 and Kernel-2.4.18. You can find their work at: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo

Donations

Shorewall is free but if you try it and find it useful, please consider making a donation to Starlight Children's Foundation. Thanks!

Updated 8/10/2002 - Tom Eastep