Shorewall announce - Feb 2003 - Shorewall 1.4 will require the iproute package

Subject says it all...

-Tom
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Tom Eastep   \ Shorewall - iptables made easy
Shoreline,    \ http://www.shorewall.net
Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

--On Friday, February 21, 2003 03:56:39 PM -0800 Steve Herber 
<herber@thing.com> wrote:
> I just checked my Redhat 7.3 system and can only find documentation for
> iproute-2.4.7.  When you say you need the iproute package, is that the
> package your are referring to?
Yes.
> Does this new requirement from Shorewall
> impact any of the major distributions and Leaf?
All major distributions include ''iproute'' although not all of
them install
it by default. Leaf includes iproute and doesn''t include ifconfig.
>
> Restated, what systems will be impacted by this requirement?
> How can a system be checked to see if it meets the requirement?
As root, at the shell prompt type "which ip" -- if you get an error,
you
will need to install the iproute package.
>
> As you can tell, I still love Shorewall.  Thanks for such great product.
>
You''re welcome.

-Tom
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Tom Eastep   \ Shorewall - iptables made easy
Shoreline,    \ http://www.shorewall.net
Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

--On Friday, February 21, 2003 04:01:28 PM -0800 Tom Eastep 
<teastep@shorewall.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Restated, what systems will be impacted by this requirement?
>> How can a system be checked to see if it meets the requirement?
>
> As root, at the shell prompt type "which ip" -- if you get an
error, you
> will need to install the iproute package.
>
Also, I would think that the majority of Shorewall users will have iproute 
installed already. The 1.3.* sample configurations require it and since the 
days of Shorewall 1.0.0, it has been required to use many of
Shorewall''s
features.

-Tom
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Tom Eastep   \ Shorewall - iptables made easy
Shoreline,    \ http://www.shorewall.net
Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net