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<article id="Shorewall_Doesnt">
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<articleinfo>
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<title>Some Things that Shorewall Does Not Do</title>
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<author>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Eastep</surname>
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</author>
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<pubdate>2005-05-15</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2003</year>
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<year>2004</year>
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<year>2005</year>
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<holder>Thomas M Eastep</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
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1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
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no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
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License</ulink></quote>.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</articleinfo>
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<section>
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<title>Shorewall Does not:</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Act as a <quote>Personal Firewall</quote> that allows internet
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access by application.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Work with an Operating System other than Linux (version >=
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2.4.0)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Act as a Proxy (although it can be used with a separate proxy
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such as Squid or Socks).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Do content filtering:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>HTTP - better to use <ulink
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url="Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html">Squid</ulink> and <ulink
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url="http://dansguardian.org/">Dansguardian</ulink> for
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that.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Email -- Install something like <ulink
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url="http://www.postfix.org">Postfix</ulink> on your firewall and
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integrate it with <ulink
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url="http://www.spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</ulink> , <ulink
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url="http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/">Amavisd-new</ulink> and
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<ulink url="http://www.clamav.net/">Clamav</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Set up Routing (except to support <ulink
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url="ProxyARP.htm">Proxy ARP</ulink>) — Shorewall 2.3.3 and later CAN
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be used to set up complex routing provided that your kernel and
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iptables include ROUTE target support.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Do Traffic Shaping/Bandwidth Management (although it provides
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<ulink url="traffic_shaping.htm">hooks to interface to Traffic
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Control/Bandwidth Management solutions</ulink>)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Configure/manage Network Devices (your Distribution includes
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tools for that).</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>In Addition:</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Shorewall generally does not contain any support for Netfilter
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<ulink url="http://www.netfilter.org">Patch-O-Matic-ng</ulink>
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features or any other features that require kernel patching --
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Shorewall only supports features from released kernels except in
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unusual cases.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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</article> |