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Shoreline Firewall - Iptables based firewall

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.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.shorewall.net/
Source tarball http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/shorewall-2.0.3.tgz
Source informationhttp://www.shorewall.net/download.htm
Version 2.0.3 (stable) released on 2004-06-24
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User quickstart available in HTML format from http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm; User reference manual available in HTML format from http://www.shorewall.net/Documentation.htm
Support contacts

Announce List<shorewall-announce@lists.shorewall.net> https://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-announce
Help List<shorewall-users@listsshorewall.net> https://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users
Developer List<shorewall-devel@lists.shorewall.net> https://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-devel

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall_CVS_Access.html
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesShell script
Use requirementsiptables 1.2 or later (author suggests *avoiding* 1.2.3), a kernal that supports netfilter
Weak prerequisitesiproute, bash, gawk/awk
Related programsFireflier, Floppyfw, Knetfilter, ferm

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-07-23
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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