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authorArTourter <artourter@gmail.com>2012-07-25 17:48:42 -0500
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2012-07-25 17:48:42 -0500
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network/shorewall: Updated for version 4.5.6.
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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-Shorewall (Iptables Made Easy)
+Shorewall (IPv4 support package for shorewall)
-The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a
-Netfilter (iptables) based firewall that can be used on a dedicated
-firewall system, a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a
-standalone GNU/Linux system.
+The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a Netfilter
+(iptables) based firewall that can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a
+multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux system.
-This is the replacement for shorewall-common and shorewall-perl.
-Shorewall-shell support has been dropped from 4.4. If you are upgrading
-from versions 4.2 and below make sure you read the documentation, as a
-lot has changed.
+As of version 4.5, shorewall consists of 3 packages:
+* shorewall-core, containing the common elements to both IPv4 and IPv6 components
+* shorewall, the IPv4 component
+* shorewall6, the IPv6 component
-This requires xtables-addons to use the new per-IP accounting feature.
+The shorewall-core package is needed for both but now you can install the IPv6
+packages without needing the IPv4 one if you are on aIV6 network only.
+
+This requires shorewall-core (and xtables-addons to use the new per-IP
+accounting feature).