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Hello, I''m a Shorewall novice. I have a problem and I''m not quite sure how to troubleshoot it. I''m using a Mandrake 9.0 (Security Level "4") system, which came with Shorewall. (I live in Lynnwood, not far from Shoreline, btw.) Long lived but idle connections are dying. Examples are SSH terminals where I don''t type anything, and IMAP connections

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 will be off of the lists until Monday evening (GMT -0800) at the earliest. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.sf.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

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

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 As I pointed out to Wilson in a private message, this appears to show that no other connection requests (other than port 3000) are being sent from the client to the server (or at least no other connection requests are being received by the Shorewall box). Wilson: Are you sure that the client is supposed to open port 3001 on the server and not the

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

Due to two deaths in my wife''s family, I will be away until some time next week. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://www.shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

The ''firewall'' and ''functions'' file in CVS together produce a 30%+ speedup of ''shorewall restart'' on my firewall when compared to 1.3.11a. Please test with these files -- I don''t anticipate making any more performance changes for 1.3.12 and I want to be sure that I didn''t break anything. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall

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

Let me know if there are any problems. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

I have implemented the ability to specify ''all'' in the SOURCE and DESTINATION columns of the rules file and I''m not sure I like the result. The code is in CVS if any of you are interested in giving it a try. If you do try it, please let me know what you think. If you specify ''all'' in those columns it must not be qualified (may not be followed by

Thanks to Stefan Mohr, a Shorewall 1.2.11 RPM package for SuSE is now available. See http://www.shorewall.net. Thanks Stefan!! -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Eastep" <teastep@shorewall.net> To: "Gary Gale" <gary@vicchi.org> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Firewall and Port Forward Clash? > Gary, > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Gale" <gary@vicchi.org> > To: "Shorewall Users List"

The 1.2 firewall contains messy logic to support the old sample configurations in that any rule that contains "none" in any of its columns is ignored. I''m considering removing that messiness in 1.3 and seek the opinion of the list. Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

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

Lorenzo Martignoni at Univesita` degli Studi di Milano in Milan has established a mirror of the Shorewall web site. http://italy.shorewall.net http://cert-it.dico.unimi.it/shorewall Thanks Lorenzo! -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \

In this release: 1. The ''try'' command now accepts an optional timeout. If the timeout is given in the command, the standard configuration will automatically be restarted after the new configuration has been running for that length of time. This prevents a remote admin from being locked out of the firewall in the case where the new configuration starts but prevents

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The server rebuild was a complete failure. For some reason, neither FC3 nor SuSE 9.2 like the graphics card in the box. I have reinstalled the old hard drive and the server is back on line. - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

This is a minor release of Shorewall which rolls up a number of bug fixes. New features include: 1. A NEWNOTSYN option has been added to shorewall.conf. This option determines whether Shorewall accepts TCP packets which are not part of an established connection and that are not ''SYN'' packets (SYN flag on and ACK flag off). 2. The need for the