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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I''ve put together a new article describing Shorewall Actions -- http://shorewall.net/Actions.html. Hopefully this article will be clearer than its predecessor. - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \

This article discusses how VPN and Netfilter interace and enumerates the rules that entries in the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file generate. http://shorewall.net/VPNBasics.html -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key

Please see http://shorewall.net/PacketHandling.html. It details the flow of a packet through a Shorwall-generated firewall. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

FYI... ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RE: [Shorewall-users] 2.6 kernel ipsec and shorewall Date: Thursday 23 September 2004 07:44 From: "Jonathan Schneider" <jon@clearconcepts.ca> To: "''Tom Eastep''" <teastep@shorewall.net> I must have been up too late working on this, looking at it the next day I noticed I completely forgot

FYI This bug will prevent ''shorewall restore'' from working if you have "!<single IP address>" in the ORIGINAL DEST column. -Tom ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [PATCH] Another iptables-save buglet Date: Wednesday 14 September 2005 15:09 From: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net> To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org The conntrack

http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta2 ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta2 Problems Corrected: 1. The "shorewall check" command results in the (harmless) error message: /usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 2753: check_dupliate_zones: command not found 2. The

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I''m on vacation this week -- I''ll check in periodically... - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.1/shorewall-2.1.10 ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.1/shorewall-2.1.10 New Features: 1) Using the default LOGFORMAT, chain names longer than 11 characters (such as in user-defined actions) may result in log prefix truncation. A new shorewall.conf action LOGTAGONLY has been added to deal with this

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As I announced earlier, I''m on vacation this week and we are spending the week at our second home. Before I left, I simulated an IPSEC tunnel between this house and our home in the Seattle area and I''m pleased to announce that the real tunnel works flawlessly. So I believe that I have done all of the testing that I can on the new

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.1/shorewall-2.1.8 ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.1/shorewall-2.1.8 New in this release: 1) Shorewall now verifies that your kernel and iptables have physdev ~ match support if BRIDGING=Yes in shorewall.conf. 2) Beginning with this release, if your kernel and iptables have ~ iprange match support

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.1/shorewall-2.1.9 ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.1/shorewall-2.1.9 Problems Corrected: 1) IP ranges in the routestopped and tunnels files now work. 2) Rules where an IP range appears in both the source and destination ~ now work correctly. 3) With complex proxy arp configurations involving two or

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 iptables=save is producing bad output for rules involving policy match. I''ve checked in a version of /sbin/shorewall to the Shorewall2/ CVS project that compensates for this bug. - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Effective immediately, I will only be announcing new Development releases on the Development List (shorewall-devel@lists.shorewall.net). - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The first beta in the 2.2 series is now available. Download location is: http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta1 ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta1 The features available in this release and the migration considerations are covered in the release notes. Highlights include: 1. The behavior

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.0/shorewall-2.0.10 ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.0/shorewall-2.0.10 Nothing Earth-shattering here and there is no reason to upgrade if you are not seeing one of the corrected problems. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Problems corrected in version 2.0.10 1) The

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The packages that I uploaded earlier were unfortunately incorrect. I have uploaded the correct packages. The incorrect md5sums are: 14e8f2bfa08cc5ca2715c8b1179d5eb2 shorewall-2.0.10-1.noarch.rpm 54bcbb2216ad3db9870507cd9716fd99 shorewall-2.0.10.tgz c2fe0acc7f056acb56d089cf8dafa39a shorwall-2.0.10.lrp The correct md5sums are:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Problems Corrected in version 2.0.9 1) Previously, an empty PROTO column or a value of "all" in that column would cause errors when processing the /etc/shorewall/tcrules file. New Features in version 2.0.9 1) The "shorewall status" command now includes the output of "brctl show" if the bridge tools are installed.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.1/shorewall-2.1.5 ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.1/shorewall-2.1.5 This completes the implementation of Kernel 2.6 IPSEC support in Shorewall. Documentation is still minimal -- see the releasenotes and http://shorewall.net/IPSEC-2.6.html - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.0/shorewall-2.0.8 ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.0/shorewall-2.0.8 - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key -----BEGIN PGP

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 An updated bogons file is available at: http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/2.0.8/bogons ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/2.0.8/bogons Thanks to Lorenzo Martignoni for bringing the resent IANA allocations to my attention. - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \