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Note: This page should be titled shorewall (all lowercase). It is Shorewall due to technical limitations of Mediawiki.

shorewall

shorewall is an package that aids in firewall management.

The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter.FIXME - Need to refer to the shorewall.net

The current stable version is the 4.0.2. It is available from shorewall.net. The deb package on debian/ubuntu/mint is older.

In using shorewall, you make a set of configuration files that are "compiled" to create the iptable commands. There are good sample configuration files that come with the shorewall package. Starting with version 4, shorewall uses a perl-based compiler; previously it used a compiler based on sh.

See also

http://www.shorewall.net - the shorewall home page