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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"><img
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<div align="center"><a
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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-1.3.9b 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>
<h2>Thinking of Downloading this Site for Offline Browsing?</h2>
You may want to reconsider -- this site is <u><b>181 MB!!!</b></u>
and you will almost certainly be blacklisted before you download the
whole thing (my SDSL is only 384kbs so I'll have lots of time to catch
you). Besides, if you simply download the product and install it, you get
the essential parts of the site in a fraction of the time. And do you really
want to download:<br>
<ul>
<li>Both text and HTML versions of every post ever made
on three different mailing lists (67.5 MB)?</li>
<li>Every .rpm, .tgz and .lrp ever released for both Shorewall
(92MB)?</li>
<li>The Shorewall 1.2 site (16.2MB).<br>
</li>
</ul>
You get all that and more if you do a blind recurive copy of this
site. Happy downloading!<br>
<h2>News</h2>
<p><b>11/09/2002 - Shorewall is Back on SourceForge</b><b> </b><b><img
border="0" src="images/new10.gif" width="28" height="12" alt="(New)">
</b></p>
<p>The Shorewall 1.3 web site is now mirrored at SourceForge at <a
href="http://shorewall.sf.net" target="_top">http://shorewall.sf.net</a>.<br>
</p>
<p><b>11/09/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.10</b><b> </b><b><img border="0"
src="images/new10.gif" width="28" height="12" alt="(New)">
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<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>You may now <a href="IPSEC.htm#Dynamic">define the contents
of a zone dynamically</a> with the <a
href="starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">"shorewall add" and "shorewall
delete" commands</a>. These commands are expected to be used primarily
within <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Efreeswan/">FreeS/Wan</a>
updown scripts.</li>
<li>Shorewall can now do<a href="MAC_Validation.html"> MAC
verification</a> on ethernet segments. You can specify the set of allowed
MAC addresses on the segment and you can optionally tie each MAC address
to one or more IP addresses.</li>
<li>PPTP Servers and Clients running on the firewall system
may now be defined in the<a href="PPTP.htm"> /etc/shorewall/tunnels</a>
file.</li>
<li>A new 'ipsecnat' tunnel type is supported for use when
the <a href="IPSEC.htm">remote IPSEC endpoint is behind a NAT
gateway</a>.</li>
<li>The PATH used by Shorewall may now be specified in <a
href="Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.</a></li>
<li>The main firewall script is now /usr/lib/shorewall/firewall.
The script in /etc/init.d/shorewall is very small and uses /sbin/shorewall
to do the real work. This change makes custom distributions such as for
Debian and for Gentoo easier to manage since it is /etc/init.d/shorewall
that tends to have distribution-dependent code.</li>
</ul>
If you have installed the 1.3.10 Beta 1 RPM and are now upgrading to
version 1.3.10, you will need to use the '--force' option:<br>
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<pre>rpm -Uvh --force shorewall-1.3.10-1.noarch.rpm</pre>
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<p><b>10/24/2002 - Shorewall is now in Gentoo Linux</b><a
href="http://www.gentoo.org"><br>
</a></p>
Alexandru Hartmann reports that his Shorewall package is now
a part of <a href="http://www.gentoo.org">the Gentoo Linux distribution</a>.
Thanks Alex!<br>
<p><b>10/23/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.10 Beta 1</b><b> </b></p>
In this version:<br>
<ul>
<li>You may now <a href="IPSEC.htm#Dynamic">define
the contents of a zone dynamically</a> with the <a
href="starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">"shorewall add" and "shorewall
delete" commands</a>. These commands are expected to be used primarily
within <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Efreeswan/">FreeS/Wan</a>
updown scripts.</li>
<li>Shorewall can now do<a
href="MAC_Validation.html"> MAC verification</a> on ethernet segments.
You can specify the set of allowed MAC addresses on the segment and
you can optionally tie each MAC address to one or more IP addresses.</li>
<li>PPTP Servers and Clients running on the firewall
system may now be defined in the<a href="PPTP.htm"> /etc/shorewall/tunnels</a>
file.</li>
<li>A new 'ipsecnat' tunnel type is supported for
use when the <a href="IPSEC.htm">remote IPSEC endpoint is
behind a NAT gateway</a>.</li>
<li>The PATH used by Shorewall may now be specified
in <a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.</a></li>
<li>The main firewall script is now /usr/lib/shorewall/firewall.
The script in /etc/init.d/shorewall is very small and uses /sbin/shorewall
to do the real work. This change makes custom distributions such
as for Debian and for Gentoo easier to manage since it is /etc/init.d/shorewall
that tends to have distribution-dependent code.</li>
</ul>
You may download the Beta from:<br>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a></li>
<li><a
href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target="_top">ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>10/10/2002 - Debian 1.3.9b 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>10/9/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.9b </b><b><img border="0"
src="images/new10.gif" width="28" height="12" alt="(New)">
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This release rolls up fixes to the installer and to
the firewall script.<br>
<b><br>
10/6/2002 - Shorewall.net now running on RH8.0 </b><b><img
border="0" src="images/new10.gif" width="28" height="12" alt="(New)">
</b><br>
<br>
The firewall and server here at shorewall.net are
now running RedHat release 8.0.<br>
<p><b>9/30/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.9a</b><b>
</b></p>
Roles up the fix for broken tunnels.<br>
<p><b>9/30/2002 - TUNNELS Broken in 1.3.9!!!</b><b>
</b></p>
<img src="images/j0233056.gif"
alt="Brown Paper Bag" width="50" height="86" align="left">
There is an updated firewall script at <a
href="ftp://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.3.9/firewall"
target="_top">ftp://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.3.9/firewall</a>
-- copy that file to /usr/lib/shorewall/firewall.<br>
<p><b><br>
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<p><b><br>
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<p><b><br>
9/28/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.9 </b><b>
</b></p>
<p>In this version:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="configuration_file_basics.htm#dnsnames">DNS Names</a> are now
allowed in Shorewall config files (although I recommend against
using them).</li>
<li>The connection SOURCE may
now be qualified by both interface and IP address in a <a
href="Documentation.htm#Rules">Shorewall rule</a>.</li>
<li>Shorewall startup is now disabled
after initial installation until the file /etc/shorewall/startup_disabled
is removed. This avoids nasty surprises at reboot for users
who install Shorewall but don't configure it.</li>
<li>The 'functions' and 'version'
files and the 'firewall' symbolic link have been moved from
/var/lib/shorewall to /usr/lib/shorewall to appease the LFS
police at Debian.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="News.htm">More News</a></p>
<h2><a name="Donations"></a>Donations</h2>
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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 11/9/2002 - <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font>
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