Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall) (original) (raw)
2020-09-19
Contents
Getting Started with Shorewall
Looking for Additional Information?
Current Shorewall Releases
| Current Stable Release | 5.2.8 | Release Notes | Known Problems |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prior Major Stable Release | 5.1.12.4 | Release Notes | Known Problems |
| Development Release |
Read about the Shorewall 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 releases here! Get them from the download sites
What is Shorewall?
Shorewall is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux.
For a high level description of Shorewall, see the Introduction to Shorewall. To review Shorewall functionality, see the Features Page.
Getting Started with Shorewall
New to Shorewall? Download the current Stable version (see above) then select the Getting Started Guide that meets your need.
Looking for Additional Information?
The documentation index on the right is a good place to start as is the Site Search box above.
Donations
If you try Shorewall and find it useful, please consider making a donation to the Tom and Tarry Eastep Scholarship at Washington State University (click on the "Search" tab and enter 'Eastep').
Thank you.
License
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, seehttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
Note: Prior to Shorewall 4.6.0, Shorewall was licensed solely under GPLv2.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License
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