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<h1 align="center"> <font size="4"><i> <a
href="http://www.cityofshoreline.com"> <img vspace="4" hspace="4"
alt="Shorwall Logo" height="70" width="85" align="left"
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</a></i></font><font color="#ffffff">Shorewall 1.3
- <font size="4">"<i>iptables made easy"</i></font></font><a
href="http://www.sf.net"> </a></h1>
<div align="center"><a href="/1.2/index.html" target="_top"><font
color="#ffffff">Shorewall 1.2 Site here</font></a></div>
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<h2 align="left">What is it?</h2>
<p>The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a
<a href="http://www.netfilter.org">Netfilter</a> (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.</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">Version 2 of the GNU General
Public License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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</p>
<p><a href="copyright.htm">Copyright 2001, 2002 Thomas M. Eastep</a></p>
<p> <a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net" target="_top"><img
border="0" src="images/leaflogo.gif" width="49" height="36">
</a>Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak have
a LEAF (router/firewall/gateway on a floppy, CD or compact
flash) distribution called <i>Bering</i> that
features Shorewall-1.3.10 and Kernel-2.4.18. You
can find their work at: <a
href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo"> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo</a></p>
<b>Congratulations to Jacques and Eric on the recent
release of Bering 1.0 Final!!! <br>
</b>
<h2>News</h2>
<p><b>12/27/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.12 Released</b><b><EFBFBD></b><b><img
border="0" src="images/new10.gif" width="28" height="12" alt="(New)">
</b></p>
<p> Features include:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>"shorewall refresh" now reloads the traffic shaping rules (tcrules
and tcstart).</li>
<li>"shorewall debug [re]start" now turns off debugging after an
error occurs. This places the point of the failure near the end of the trace
rather than up in the middle of it.</li>
<li>"shorewall [re]start" has been speeded up by more than 40% with
my configuration. Your milage may vary.</li>
<li>A "shorewall show classifiers" command has been added which
shows the current packet classification filters. The output from this command
is also added as a separate page in "shorewall monitor"</li>
<li>ULOG (must be all caps) is now accepted as a valid syslog level
and causes the subject packets to be logged using the ULOG target rather
than the LOG target. This allows you to run ulogd (available from <a
href="http://www.gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd">http://www.gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd</a>)
and log all Shorewall messages <a
href="configuration_file_basics.htm#Levels">to a separate log file</a>.</li>
<li>If you are running a kernel that has a FORWARD chain in the
mangle table ("shorewall show mangle" will show you the chains in the
mangle table), you can set MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=Yes in <a
href="Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</a>. This allows for marking
input packets based on their destination even when you are using Masquerading
or SNAT.</li>
<li>I have cluttered up the /etc/shorewall directory with empty
'init', 'start', 'stop' and 'stopped' files. If you already have a file
with one of these names, don't worry -- the upgrade process won't overwrite
your file.</li>
<li>I have added a new RFC1918_LOG_LEVEL variable to <a
href="Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</a>. This variable specifies
the syslog level at which packets are logged as a result of entries in the
/etc/shorewall/rfc1918 file. Previously, these packets were always logged
at the 'info' level.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>12/20/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.12 Beta 3</b><br>
</p>
This version corrects a problem with Blacklist logging. In Beta 2, if
BLACKLIST_LOG_LEVEL was set to anything but ULOG, the firewall would fail
to start and "shorewall refresh" would also fail.<br>
<p> You may download the Beta from:<br>
</p>
<blockquote><a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta"
target="_top">ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</blockquote>
<p><b>12/20/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.12 Beta 2</b><b>
</b></p>
The first public Beta version of Shorewall 1.3.12 is now available
(Beta 1 was made available only to a limited audience). <br>
<br>
Features include:<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>"shorewall refresh" now reloads the traffic shaping rules
(tcrules and tcstart).</li>
<li>"shorewall debug [re]start" now turns off debugging after
an error occurs. This places the point of the failure near the end of the
trace rather than up in the middle of it.</li>
<li>"shorewall [re]start" has been speeded up by more than
40% with my configuration. Your milage may vary.</li>
<li>A "shorewall show classifiers" command has been added which
shows the current packet classification filters. The output from this command
is also added as a separate page in "shorewall monitor"</li>
<li>ULOG (must be all caps) is now accepted as a valid syslog
level and causes the subject packets to be logged using the ULOG target
rather than the LOG target. This allows you to run ulogd (available from
<a href="http://www.gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd">http://www.gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd</a>)
and log all Shorewall messages <a
href="configuration_file_basics.htm#Levels">to a separate log file</a>.</li>
<li>If you are running a kernel that has a FORWARD chain in
the mangle table ("shorewall show mangle" will show you the chains in the
mangle table), you can set MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=Yes in shorewall.conf.
This allows for marking input packets based on their destination even when
you are using Masquerading or SNAT.</li>
<li>I have cluttered up the /etc/shorewall directory with empty
'init', 'start', 'stop' and 'stopped' files. If you already have a file
with one of these names, don't worry -- the upgrade process won't overwrite
your file.</li>
</ol>
You may download the Beta from:<br>
<blockquote><a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta"
target="_top">ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</blockquote>
<p><b>12/12/2002 - Mandrake Multi Network Firewall <a
href="http://www.mandrakesoft.com"><img src="images/logo2.png"
alt="Powered by Mandrake Linux" width="150" height="23" border="0">
</a></b></p>
Shorewall is at the center of MandrakeSofts's recently-announced
<a
href="http://www.mandrakestore.com/mdkinc/index.php?PAGE=tab_0/menu_0.php&amp;id_art=250&amp;LANG_=en#GOTO_250">Multi
Network Firewall (MNF)</a> product. Here is the <a
href="http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2403">press
release</a>.<br>
<p><b>12/7/2002 - Shorewall Support for Mandrake 9.0</b><b>
</b></p>
<p>Two months and 3 days after I pre-ordered Mandrake 9.0, it was finally
delivered. I have installed 9.0 on one of my systems and I am now in
a position to support Shorewall users who run Mandrake 9.0.</p>
<p><b>12/6/2002 - <20>Debian 1.3.11a Packages Available</b><b></b><br>
</p>
<p>Apt-get sources listed at <a
href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html.</a></p>
<p><b>12/3/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.11a</b><b>
</b></p>
<p>This is a bug-fix roll up which includes Roger Aich's fix for DNAT
with excluded subnets (e.g., "DNAT foo!bar ..."). Current 1.3.11 users
who don't need rules of this type need not upgrade to 1.3.11.</p>
<p><b>11/25/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.11 Documentation in PDF Format</b><b>
</b></p>
<p>Juraj Ontkanin has produced a PDF containing the Shorewall 1.3.11
documenation. the PDF may be downloaded from</p>
<p><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> <a
href="ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/" target="_top">ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
<20><><EFBFBD> <a
href="http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/">http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
</p>
<p><b>11/24/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.11</b><b>
</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>A 'tcpflags' option has been added to entries
in <a href="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</a>.
This option causes Shorewall to make a set of sanity check on TCP packet
header flags.</li>
<li>It is now allowed to use 'all' in the SOURCE
or DEST column in a <a href="Documentation.htm#Rules">rule</a>. When
used, 'all' must appear by itself (in may not be qualified) and it
does not enable intra-zone traffic. For example, the rule <br>
<br>
<20> <20> ACCEPT loc all tcp 80<br>
<br>
does not enable http traffic from 'loc' to 'loc'.</li>
<li>Shorewall's use of the 'echo' command is now
compatible with bash clones such as ash and dash.</li>
<li>fw-&gt;fw policies now generate a startup error.
fw-&gt;fw rules generate a warning and are ignored</li>
</ul>
<p><b>11/14/2002 - Shorewall Documentation in PDF Format</b><b>
</b></p>
<p>Juraj Ontkanin has produced a PDF containing the Shorewall 1.3.10
documenation. the PDF may be downloaded from</p>
<p><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> <a
href="ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/" target="_top">ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
<20><><EFBFBD> <a
href="http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/">http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
</p>
<p><b></b></p>
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<p><b></b><a href="News.htm">More News</a></p>
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<h1 align="center"><a href="http://www.sf.net"><img align="left"
alt="SourceForge Logo"
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<h4> </h4>
<h2>This site is hosted by the generous folks at <a
href="http://www.sf.net">SourceForge.net</a> </h2>
<h2><a name="Donations"></a>Donations</h2>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://www.starlight.org"> <img
border="4" src="images/newlog.gif" width="57" height="100" align="left"
hspace="10">
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<p align="center"><font size="4" color="#ffffff">Shorewall is free but
if you try it and find it useful, please consider making a donation
to <a
href="http://www.starlight.org"><font color="#ffffff">Starlight Children's
Foundation.</font></a> Thanks!</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">Updated 12/22/2002 - <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font>
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