diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'network/shorewall/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | network/shorewall/README | 23 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/network/shorewall/README b/network/shorewall/README index 307cabe89d..3137dbc2e9 100644 --- a/network/shorewall/README +++ b/network/shorewall/README @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ -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). |