similar to: More speedups in CVS

The ''firewall'' script currently in the /Shorewall CVS project: a) Is approximately 15% faster starting/restarting on my configuration -- please report your experiences with it. b) Reloads Traffic Control/Shaping as part of "shorewall refresh" c) Turns off the shell trace after an error has occured (except when the command being traced is "stop" or

I think we should add an FAQ entry for tcp_ecn. I remember Tom giving a good description in one of his many responses and there is mention of it in the pptp page, but I could not find the response from Tom about different tcp stacks. Thanks, -- Steve Herber herber@thing.com work: 206-261-0307 Systems Engineer, AMCIS, UoW home: 425-454-2399 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat,

Rather than have lots of folks downloading a version with a broken ''check'' command, I''ve released 1.4.1a that corrects the problem. Sorry for the back-to-back releases today... -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.sf.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

The 3.1 Beta is now available -- check the Shorewall home page. -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

I think that the time has come for me to back off a bit from my involvement with Shorewall. I just don''t have enough cycles (or energy) to keep up the pace of the last several months. As a consequence, I''m going to do the following: 1. I''m going to stop personally supporting the entry level tools (samples and quick start guide). These tools are a source of constant

Now that 1.3 is out, I thought it would be a good idea to tell you what my plans are for Shorewall and to solicit input from this list. My focus for the next several minor releases will be to incorporate recent Netfilter enhancements into Shorewall. For example, this afternoon I have integrated support for the ''multiport'' match facility. I would like to defer the next minor

I looked at the 1.3 whitelist documentation and realized that the ops example, while interesting in and of itself, did not do what I think a whitelist does. Back to symmetry, if a blacklist is a list of sites not allowed to connect in through the fire wall, maybe to a web server, for example, then a whitelist should be a list of machines that are allowed to access a service or services, again,

Ron and Steve, I am ready to begin the documentation changes for 1.3.2. Are you close to having any of your changes ready for release? If so, we can get those into CVS before I begin my changes -- if not, then I''ll go ahead and update CVS with the 1.3.2 material. Please let me know. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net

Hi! I have a Linux shorewall firewall that is the default gw of the network. I want to redirect all localy originating traffic to port 80 into another machine on port 8002 into the local network. This machine is a WIN2000 machine running a commercial software (proxy, content filtering) that only runs into Windows... :-( I tried something like this but this doesn''t seem to work: local

Hi, I installed the shorewall 1.3.8-2 debian package to my debian testing machine which serves as the gateway to the internet. Since I have two other machine connect to internet thru this gateway machine, I also downloaded the configuration guide for "basic two-interface firewall" and followed the instructions. When I try to start the shorewall I get the following message and can not

Rafa³ Dutko has just discovered a potentially serious bug in version 1.3.0 and 1.3.1. In both versions, where an interface option appears on multiple interfaces, the option may only be applied to the first interface on which it appears. A corrected firewall script for 1.3.1 is available at: http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.3.1/firewall and

Shorewall 1.3.9 is available. In this release: 1. DNS Names are now allowed in Shorewall config files (I still recommend against using them however). 2. The connection SOURCE may now be qualified by both interface and IP address in a Shorewall rule. 3. Shorewall startup is now disabled after initial installation until the file /etc/shorewall/startup_disabled is removed. 4. The

I have purchased a license for Vexira MailArmor (an antivirus product) and the good news is that it is installed and working at shorewall.net. The bad news is that I have yet to get Vexira running together with SpamAssassin :-( As things currently stand, list posts will be protected from viruses but may contain Spam. I''ll continue to work to correct this situation. -Tom -- Tom Eastep

does anyone know how to enable the "udp loose" function in kernel 2.4.x? one of my fave games requires this to work on the net and i''d really like to move away from the 2.2 series kernels. tia

Hello all, i am new to shorewall and i already have a question ;) i am running a mailserver in my dmz (or actually this will be when = evertything will be working fine with shorewall) with public ip = addresses.. i have a subnet of 8 ip addresses (255.255.255.248 mask) and = i was planning of the classic 3 nic (eth0-2) setup... the dmz should = work with proxy-arping...=20 now my quesion is

This will be the last Shorewall release for a while as I''m going to be focusing on Documentation. In this release: 1. Empty and invalid source and destination qualifiers are now detected in the rules file. It is a good idea to use the ''shorewall check'' command before you issue a ''shorewall restart'' command be be sure that you don''t

This is a minor release of Shorewall. In this release: 1. A "shorewall try" command has been added. This command attempts to restart Shorewall using an alternate configuration and if that attempt fails, Shorewall is automatically started with the default configuration. This is useful for remote administration where a failed restart of Shorewall can leave you isolated from

Hello, on my old system I''m using ipchains. Can anyone help me with converting rule /sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s source_addr -d destination_addr 443 -p tcp to shorewall. I know that I can write eth0 source_addr to /etc/shorewall/masq file but I can''t found where I can specify the destination address. The reason for this is to allow one user (computer) access only to

Hey gang, I was wondering if all that documentation could or has been put into PDF format. I usually like to download documentation and read it while I''m sitting comfortably at home and I don''t want to tie up the phone line all night. Thanks, Nino p.s. If so, please feel free to attach the PDF formatted document to my e-mail ;-)

Still not working I really have to change 21 port on 80 port, my friend has only www and mail on his netwok. He has rigorous admin. I have done : !! in proftpd.cof : # Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Port 80 !! in /etc/shorewall/modules: loadmodule ip_conntrack_ftp ports=21,80 loadmodule ip_nat_ftp ports=21,80 AFTER THAT AND RESTARTTING PROFTP AND